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ESPLORATORE patrol boats (1997 - 2006)


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Esploratore 2008

Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comm Fate
Esploratore P405   Co.I.Nav.Al., Cadimare, La Spezia   4.11.1996 26.6.1997 in service (2019)
Sentinella P406   Co.I.Nav.Al., Cadimare, La Spezia   13.11.1997 10.7.1998 in service (2019)
Vedetta P407   Co.I.Nav.Al., Cadimare, La Spezia   11.1.1997 29.7.1999 in service (2019)
Staffetta P408   Co.I.Nav.Al., Cadimare, La Spezia   12.1.2001 23.3.2006 in service (2019)


Technical data


Displacement standard, t

117

Displacement full, t165
Length, m34.7 pp 37.2 oa
Breadth, m7.06 wl 7.50 oa
Draught, m1.90 hull 2.30 max
No of shafts2
Machinery

2 Isotta-Fraschini M1712 T2 diesels

Power, h. p.

3800

Max speed, kts

20

Fuel, t

diesel oil

Endurance, nm(kts) 
Armament

1 x 1 - 20/70 Mk 4, 2 x 1 - 7.6/90

Electronic equipment2x SPN-753 radars, Medusa e/o detector
Complement15


Standard scale images


<i>Esploratore</i> 2000
Esploratore 2000


Graphics


<i>Esploratore</i> 2008
Esploratore 2008


Project history

First three (with an option for a fourth) were approved in the 1996 budget to replace the converted US Adjutant-class minesweepers used in UN patrol service in the Red Sea; P408 was ordered in 1998.

Modernizations

late 2010s, all: - 1 x 1 - 20/70; + 1 x 1 - 25/87 KBA25/80

Naval service

No significant events.