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MC491 motor torpedo / gun boats (1963 - 1965)


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Lampo 1980

Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
MC491, 9.1965- Lampo P491   Arsenale Taranto   22.11.1960 4.1963 stricken 4.1985
MC492, 9.1965- Baleno P492   Arsenale Taranto   10.6.1964 7.1965 stricken 5.1985


Technical data


Displacement standard, t

170

Displacement full, t

196

Length, m

43.0

Breadth, m

6.30

Draught, m

1.50

No of shafts

3

Machinery

CODAG: 1 Metrovick gas turbine + 2 Fiat diesels

Power, h. p.

4500+7200 = 11700

Max speed, kts

39

Fuel, t

diesel oil

Endurance, nm(kts) 
Armament

3 x 1 - 40/70 Breda type 107 or (1 x 1 - 40/70 Breda type 107, 4 - 450 TT) or (2 x 1 - 40/70 Breda type 107, 2 - 533 TT)

Electronic equipment3ST7-250 radar
Complement

33



Standard scale images


<i>Lampo </i>1968
Lampo 1968
<i>Lampo </i>1975
Lampo 1975


Graphics


<i>Lampo </i>1980
Lampo 1980


Project history

Improved versions of Folgore (1957 programme). They were designed as convertible boats. They were the first Italian warships to have gas turbines.

Modernizations

1975, both: Fiat diesels were replaced by MTU 518D diesels.

Naval service

No significant events.