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ALMIRANTE WILLIAMS frigate (1988/2003)


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Almirante Williams 2003

Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Almirante Williams (ex-Sheffield) 19   Swan Hunter, Wallsend, UK 29.3.1984 26.3.1986 26.7.1988 // 5.9.2003 in service (2019)


Technical data


Displacement standard, t

4200

Displacement full, t

4850

Length, m

140.0 pp 148.1 oa

Breadth, m

14.8

Draught, m

4.30 hull 6.40 screws

No of shafts

2

Machinery

COGAG: 2 Rolls-Royce Spey SM1A gas turbines + 2 Rolls-Royce Tyne RM1C gas turbines

Power, h. p.

37540+9700=47240

Max speed, kts

30

Fuel, t

gas turbine oil 700

Endurance, nm(kts)

4500(18)

Armament

2 x 6 Sea Wolf GWS25 Mod.3 SAM (72 Sea Wolf GWS25), 2 x 1 - 20/90 GAM-B01, 2 x 3 - 324 STWS.2, 1 helicopter (Cougar or BO-105)

Electronic equipment

type 1007, type 967, type 968, 2x type 911 radars, type 2050,  type 2031Z sonars, UAA-2, UAD/UAK, 2x type 675 ECM suites, 4x DLB decoy RL, 2x DEC laser-dazzlers, 4x DLF-2 floating decoy launchers, type 182 torpedo decoy, CACS1 CCS

Complement

273



Standard scale images


<i>Almirante Williams </i>2005
Almirante Williams 2005
<i>Almirante Williams </i>2010
Almirante Williams 2010


Graphics


<i>Almirante Williams</i> 2003
Almirante Williams 2003


Project history

Former British Type 22 Batch 2 frigate (Broadsword class, Boxer group). Ordered for Royal Navy in 1982 and decommissioned 14.11.2002. Purchased in 2003, refitted in the UK, and transferred in September. The hangar has been enlarged to accommodate Chilean Cougar helicopters.

Modernizations 12.

2009: - 2 x 6 Sea Wolf SAM, type 1007, 2x type 911 radars, UAA-2, UAD/UAK, 2x type 675 ECM suites, 4x DLB decoy RL, 2x DEC laser-dazzlers, 4x DLF-2 floating decoy launchers, CACS 1 CCS; + 2 x 4 Harpoon SSM (8 RGM-84C), 4 x 8 Barak SAM (VLS, 32 Barak), 1 x 1 - 76/62 OTO-Melara Compact, type 1008, EL/M-2228, 2x EL/M-2221 radars, Saphir e/o system, new Elbit ECM suites, 4x Sea Gnat decoy RL, SP21K CCS

Naval service

No significant events.