SPS Extremadura (F75)
SPS Extremadura (F75) | |
Career | |
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Name: | SPS Extremadura (F71) |
Namesake: | Extremadura |
Builder: | Bazan |
Laid down: | November 1971 |
Launched: | 21 November 1972 |
Commissioned: | 10 November 1976 |
Decommissioned: | 2006 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type: | Baleares-class frigate |
Displacement: | 3,015 long tons (3,063 t), standard 4,177 long tons (4,244 t), full load |
Length: | 438 ft (134 m), overall |
Beam: | 46 ft 9 in (14.25 m) |
Draft: | 24 ft 9 in (7.54 m) |
Propulsion: | 1 shaft, one Westinghouse steam turbine, 2 V2M boilers. total 35,000 shp (maximum), |
Speed: | 28 knots (52 km/h) |
Sensors and processing systems: | AN/SPS-52B Air Search Radar RAN-12L/X Air Search Radar AN/SPS-10F Surface Search Radar DE1160LF Sonar AN/SQS-35(v)Variable Depth Sonar system AN/SPG-53 Mk68 Gun Fire Control System |
Electronic warfare and decoys: | Ceselsa Deneb/Canopus, Mk36 SROC decoy launchers |
Armament: | 1 × Mk-16 8 cell missile launcher for RUR-5 ASROC and Harpoon missiles 1 × Mk42 5-inch/54 caliber gun 2 × quad Mk141 launchers for Harpoon missiles 1 × Standard SAM launcher (16 Missiles) 2 × 20mm Meroka CIWS gun systems Mark 46 torpedoes (from 4 × single tube launchers) |
SPS Extremadura (F75) is the fifth ship of five Spanish-built Baleares-class frigates, based on the American Knox class design, of the Spanish Navy.
Laid down on November 1971 and launched on 21 November 1972, Baleares was commissioned into service on 10 November 1976.
All of these Spanish frigates were built to the size of the Knox frigates.
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