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Presidente Eloy Alfaro 2011

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Presidente Eloy Alfaro (ex-Almirante Condell)	FM01		Yarrow, Scotstoun, UK	5.6.1971	12.6.1972	21.12.1973 // 18.4.2008	in service (2019)
Morán Valverde (ex-Almirante Lynch)	FM02		Yarrow, Scotstoun, UK	6.12.1972	6.12.1973	25.5.1974 // 15.10.2008	in service (2019)

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	2500
Displacement full, t	2962
Length, m	109.7 pp 113.4 oa
Breadth, m	13.1
Draught, m	4.50 hull 5.49 propellers
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 sets Y-160 geared steam turbines, 2 Babcock & Wilcox boilers
Power, h. p.	30000
Max speed, kts	27
Fuel, t	oil 500
Endurance, nm(kts)	4500(12)
Armament	2 x 2 MM40 Exocet SSM (4 MM40), 1 x 2 - 120/45 Mk 6, 1 x 6 - 20/76 Phalanx Mk 15, 2 x 3 - 324 Mk 32 TT, 1 helicopter (Bell 206)
Electronic equipment	type 1006, type 992Q, type 965 AKE-1, type 903 radars, type 162M, type 184M, type 170B sonars, NS9010 ECV2, type 668 ECM suites, 2x Corvus, 2x Barricade decoy RL, type 182 torpedo decoy, SP100 CCS
Complement	263

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Project history

Former Chilean Leander class frigates, retired from Chilean service in 2007 and transferred to Ecuador in 2008. Phalanx was removed prior the transfer but soon installed again, there are fitting for 3 twin Simbad SAMs (36 Mistral missiles) but really SAMs are not installed.

Modernizations

2016, both: - Bell 206 helicopter; + SH-2G Super SeaSprite helicopter

Naval service

No significant events.