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IBN KHALDOUM training frigate (1980)


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Ibn Khaldoum 1980

Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
ابن خلدوم [Ibn Khaldoum], 1991- ابن مغيد [Ibn Maghid] 507   Uljanik SY, Yugoslavia 1977 1978 21.3.1980 damaged 2.1991, never repaired


Technical data


Displacement standard, t 
Displacement full, t

1850

Length, m

90.0 pp 96.7 oa

Breadth, m

11.2

Draught, m

3.55

No of shafts

2

Machinery

CODOG: 1 Rolls-Royce Olympus TM-3B gas turbine / 2 MTU 16V956 TB61 diesels

Power, h. p.

22360 / 7500

Max speed, kts

26

Fuel, t

diesel / gas turbine oil

Endurance, nm(kts)

4000(20)

Armament

1 x 1 - 57/70 SAK-57 Mk 1, 1 x 1 - 40/70 Bofors 315, 4 x 2 - 20/70 Mk 24, 1 DCR

Electronic equipment

Decca 1226, Decca 1229, 9LV200 Mk II radars, MS26 sonar

Complement

93 + 100 trainees



Standard scale images


<i>Ibn Khaldoum </i>1990
Ibn Khaldoum 1990


Graphics


<i>Ibn Khaldoum </i>1980
Ibn Khaldoum 1980


Project history

Training ship with frigate characteristics of Yugoslav design, first of three ordered for Yugoslavian (never completed), Indonesian and Iraqi navies. Differed from semi-sisters by absence of helicopter pad.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

During the Iran-Iraq war Ibn Khaldoum was used as a transport. In February 1991 she was caught at Basra by allied forces and was seriously damaged. Later ship was never repaired and abandoned.