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Licio Visintini 1975

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Pietro de Cristofaro	F540		CNR, Riva Trigoso	30.4.1963	29.5.1965	19.12.1965	stricken 1994
Umberto Grosso	F541		Ansaldo, Livorno	21.10.1962	12.12.1964	25.4.1966	stricken 1994
Licio Visintini	F546		CRDA, Monfalcone	30.9.1963	30.5.1965	25.8.1966	stricken 1994
Salvatore Todaro	F550		Ansaldo, Livorno	21.10.1962	24.10.1964	25.4.1966	stricken 1994

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	850
Displacement full, t	1020
Length, m	75.0 pp 80.2 oa
Breadth, m	10.0
Draught, m	2.50
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 Fiat 3012RSS diesels
Power, h. p.	8400
Max speed, kts	23
Fuel, t	diesel oil 100
Endurance, nm(kts)	4000(16)
Armament	2 x 1 - 76/62 MMI, 2 x 3 - 324 TT, 1 x 1 - 305 Menon ASWRL
Electronic equipment	SPQ-2, RTN-10 radars, SQS-36, SQS-36 VDS sonars
Complement	131

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Project history

For the first time in postwar Italian practice, these ships were given a forecastle. They also had a transom stern, a departure from previous practice. As in the somewhat later Alpinos, they had a VDS, in their case a separate SQS-36 handled by a crane mounted on deck. There was also a medium-frequency hull sonar, reportedly a separate SQS-36. The 76mm gun was the successful OTO-Melara type, controlled by an OG 3 director (Orion RTN-7X radar), with an optical director (probably OG 1) aft. The single-barrel Menon mortar was mounted aft, in 'X' position.

Modernizations

early 1980s, all: + BX-732 radar

1989, all as patrols ships: - 2 x 3 - 324 TT, 1 x 1 - 305 Menon ASWRL, SQS-36, SQS-36 VDS sonars

Naval service

No significant events.