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Presidente Eloy Alfaro 1998

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Presidente Eloy Alfaro (ex-Penelope)	FM01	165	Vickers-Armstrong, Tyne, UK	14.3.1961	17.8.1962	1.11.1963 // 25.4.1991	stricken 2008
Morán Valverde (ex-Danae)	FM02		Devonport DYd, UK	16.1.1965	21.10.1965	10.10.1967 // 25.4.1991	stricken 2008

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	2790
Displacement full, t	3200
Length, m	109.7 pp 113.4 oa
Breadth, m	12.5
Draught, m	5.50 max
No of shafts	2
Machinery	FM01: 2 sets White-English Electric Y-100 geared steam turbines, 2 Babcock & Wilcox boilers FM02: 2 sets White-English Electric Y-136 geared steam turbines, 2 Babcock & Wilcox boilers
Power, h. p.	30000
Max speed, kts	28
Fuel, t	oil 460
Endurance, nm(kts)	4000(15)
Armament	4 x 1 MM38 Exocet SSM (4 MM38), 2 x 4 Sea Cat GWS22B SAM (24 Sea Cat), 2 x 1 - 40/60 Mk 9, 1 helicopter (Bell 412EP)
Electronic equipment	type 965 AKE-1, 2x type 904, type 1006, type 993 radars, type 184M, type 162M sonars, UA-8/9 ECM, type 668 ECM suites, 2x Mk 36 SRBOC, 2x Corvus decoy RL, type 182 torpedo decoy, CAAIS CCS
Complement	223

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Project history

Former RN Leander class frigates, acquired as replacements for former USN destroyer and destroyer escort. TShips were transferred without Seacat and Exocet missiles, Exocets were transferred later.

Modernizations

2001, both: - 2 x 4 Sea Cat SAM, type 993, 2x type 904 radars, US-8/9 ECM suite, CAAIS CCS; + 3 x 2 Simbad SAM (36 Mistral), 2 x 2 - 20/70 Mk 12, 2 x 3 - 324 ILAS-3 TT (A-244S), type 994 radar, NS9010 ECV2 ECM suite, SP100 CCS

Naval service

No significant events.