ESPN Audaz (P-45)

History
Spain
Name: Tornado
Ordered: 7 May 2014
Builder: NAVANTIA
Cost: €166.74m (US$224m)[1]
Laid down: 29 April 2016
Launched: 30 March 2017
Commissioned: 2018
Decommissioned: Under construction
Identification: pennant number: P45
General characteristics
Class and type: Meteoro class BAM
Displacement: 2860 tons full load
Length: 93.9 metres (308 ft)
Beam: 14.2 metres (47 ft)
Draft: 4.2 metres (14 ft)
Propulsion:
  • 2 diesel engines
  • 4 groups diesel generators
  • 2 electric motors propellers
  • 1 Emergency generator
  • Located 2 cross bow thruster
Speed: 20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph)
Range: 3,500 nautical miles (6,500 km; 4,000 mi)
Complement: 46 crew and 30 forces[2]
Armament:
  • 1 cannon 76 mm/62 gun
  • 2 x 25 mm automatic mountings
  • 2 × 12.7 mm machine guns
Aircraft carried: 1 × NH-90

The ESPN Audaz (P-45) is a offshore patrol vessels and the fifth of the Meteoro class created for the Spanish Navy. The ship has already been dropped and its construction is in the final phase to be commissioned on 2018.

Order and construction

On May 7, 2014, SEPI announced that it had approved the construction of two new units, one to be built at the Cadiz shipyard in San Fernando / Puerto Real and the other at Ferrol.[3] The first sheet metal cut for these vessels, was carried out simultaneously in the shipyards of the bay of Cadiz and those of the Ferrol estuary on December 5, 2014. Order No. DEF/1564/2015 was published in the Official State Gazette on June 26, 2015, which names of these two ships as Audaz (P-45) and Furor (P-46).[4]

On April 29, 2016, the first of the ship's blocks was placed on a grade. On March 30, 2017, it was launched at the San Fernando shipyard.[5] Its delivery to the Spanish Navy is scheduled for 2018.

Units of the class

References

  1. ↑ Ing, David (22 July 2014). "Two new Spanish BAM OPVs to be in service by 2019, says Navantia". IHS Jane's Navy International.
  2. ↑ Official Web of the Spanish Navy
  3. ↑ La SEPI anuncia la construcción de un Buque de Acción Marítima (BAM) en los astilleros gaditanos(spanish)
  4. ↑ Order DEF / 1564/2015, of June 26, naming two BAMs, currently under construction(spanish)
  5. ↑ Navantia launches fifth Buque de Acción Marítima ship for Spanish Navy
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