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Carrera 2006

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comm	Fate
Carrera	22		Navantia (IZAR), Cartagena, Spain	18.11.2000	24.11.2004	20.7.2006	in service (2019)
O'Higgins	23		DCN, Cherbourg, France	18.11.1999	23.10.2003	9.9.2005	in service (2019)

Technical data

Displacement standard, t
Displacement normal, t	1550 / 1670
Length, m	66.4
Breadth, m	6.20 hull 8.00 over stern planes
Draught, m	5.80
No of shafts	1
Machinery	4 MTU 16V396 SE84 diesel-generators, 1 Jeumont-Schneider Magtronic electric motor
Power, h. p.	3260 / 3800
Max speed, kts	12 / 20
Fuel, t	diesel oil
Endurance, nm(kts)	6500(8) / 550(4)
Armament	6 - 533 TT (bow, 18 (inc. SM39 Exocet SSM (6 SM39)) A-184 Black Shark, SUT266)
Electronic equipment	type 1007 radar, SUBTICS sonar suite (TSM2233 Mk 2, TSM2253 sonars), AR-900 ECM suite, SUBTICS CCS
Complement	31
Diving depth operational, m	300

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Project history

French 'Scorpene' design. Ordered in 1997. DCN performed about 60% of the construction work, including manufacturing the pressure hulls and outfitting the bow and amidships sections: Navantia fitted out the stern sections, while each company conducted final outfitting on one unit. As built, these submarines do not employ an Air independent propulsion system. All machinery is "rafted" for sound isolation. Only nine personnel are on watch under normal conditions. The lower rudder is shorter to allow for "bottoming." The casing and sail are fabricated from GRP. Two of the torpedo tubes have pneumatic ram launching to allow for the launch of SM39 antiship missiles: the other four tubes are of the swim-out variety.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

Carrera and O'Higgins were badly damaged, running ashore by tsunami off Talcahuano 27.2.2010.