Class overview | |
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Name: | Uribe |
Builders: | Empresa Nacional Bazán |
Operators: | Mexican Navy |
Preceded by: | Valle-class patrol vessel |
Succeeded by: | Holzinger-class patrol vessel |
Built: | 6 |
In service: | 6 |
Active: | 6 |
General characteristics | |
Type: | Offshore patrol vessel |
Displacement: | 988 tons (normall load) |
Length: | 67 m (220 ft) |
Beam: | 10.5 m (34 ft) |
Draught: | 3.52 m (11.5 ft) |
Propulsion: | 2 Diesel electric drive MTU 20 V. 958TB-92 12, 200 HP. |
Speed: | 18.5 knots (maximum) |
Range: | 8,000 NM at 12 kts. |
Troops: | 0 |
Crew: | 54 |
Sensors and processing systems: |
Optical fire director CSEE Model 74 NAJA Navigation: Racal Decca Serie 12 Radar. Both Sensor are integrated in the RADOP 30 Fire Control System. |
Armament: | 1x 40 mm L70 Bofors DP. |
Aircraft carried: | 1 MBB Bo 105 Helicopter |
Aviation facilities: | One helicopter hangar and Helipad |
Uribe class patrol vessels are offshore patrol vessels use by the Mexican Navy. The class was developed by the Spanish company Empresa Nacional Bazán in 1982. It is a multi-role patrol craft with twin funnels and a helicopter deck. These ships have main armament (40 mm L70 DP gun) at B position. Ships of the Uribe class were the first vessels of the Mexican Navy able to operate on board helicopters (MBB Bo 105).