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Nicolás Bravo 1999

Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Nicolás Bravo (ex-McCloy) E40, 2001- F201   Avondale, Westwego, USA 15.9.1951 9.6.1962 21.10.1963 // 19.11.1993 stricken 4.2017
Hermenegildo Galeana (ex-Bronstein) E42, 2001- F202   Avondale, Westwego, USA 16.5.1961 31.3.1962 16.6.1963 // 22.11.1993 stricken 4.2017


Technical data


Displacement standard, t

2360

Displacement full, t

2650

Length, m

106.7 wl 113.2 oa

Breadth, m

12.3

Draught, m

7.00

No of shafts

1

Machinery

1 set De Laval geared steam turbines, 2 Foster Wheeler boilers

Power, h. p.

20000

Max speed, kts

24

Fuel, t

oil 480

Endurance, nm(kts)4000(15)
Armament

1 x 8 ASROC Mk 116 ASuR (8 RUR-5), 1 x 2 - 76/50 Mk 33, 2 x 3 - 324 Mk 32 TT (14), helicopter deck

Electronic equipment

Kelvin-Hughes 17/9, SPS-10F, SPS-40D, Mk 35 radars, SQS-26AXR sonar, WLR-1, WLR-3 ECM suites, 2x Mk 33 RBOC decoy RL, T Mk 6 Fanfare torpedo decoy

Complement

210



Standard scale images


<i>Nicolás Bravo</i> 1993
Nicolás Bravo 1993


Graphics


<i>Nicolás Bravo </i>1999
Nicolás Bravo 1999


Project history

Former USN Bronstein class frigates.

Modernizations

1994, Hermenegildo Galeana: + 1 x 1 - 57/70 Bofors SAK57 Mk 2, NA-18 e/o system

2002, Hermenegildo Galeana: - 1 x 1 - 57/70, NA-18 e/o system

Naval service

No significant events.