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Rasheed 2007

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
دمياط [Damyat] (ex-Jesse L. Brown)	961		Avondale, Westwego, USA	8.4.1971	18.3.1972	17.2.1973 // 28.7.1994	in service (2019)
رشيد [Rasheed] (ex-Moinester)	966		Avondale, Westwego, USA	25.8.1972	12.5.1973	2.11.1974 // 28.7.1994	in service (2019)

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	3075
Displacement full, t	4260
Length, m	126.5 wl 133.6 oa
Breadth, m	14.3
Draught, m	7.55
No of shafts	1
Machinery	1 set Westinghouse geared steam turbine, 2 Combustion Engineering boilers
Power, h. p.	35000
Max speed, kts	27
Fuel, t	oil
Endurance, nm(kts)	4000(20)
Armament	1 x 8 Harpoon SSM / ASROC Mk 116 ASuR (4 RGM-84A / 12 RUR-5), 1 x 1 - 127/54 Mk 42, 1 x 6 - 20/76 Mk 15 Phalanx Block 1B, 4 x 1 - 12.7/90, 4 - 324 Mk 32 TT (22 Mk 46 Mod.5), 1 helicopter (SH-2G(E) Super SeaSprite)
Electronic equipment	961: SPS-64(v)9, SPS-67, SPS-40D, SPG-53F, Mk 90 radars, SQS-26CX, SQR-18A(v)1 sonars, SLQ-32(v)2 ECM suite, 2x Mk 36 SRBOC decoy RL, SLQ-25 Nixie torpedo decoy 966: SPS-64(v)9, SPS-67, SPS-40D, SPG-53F, Mk 90 radars, SQS-26CX, SQR-18A(v)1 sonars, SLQ-32(v)1 ECM suite, 2x Mk 36 SRBOC decoy RL, T-Mk 6 Fanfare torpedo decoy
Complement	285

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Project history

USN Knox class frigates, transferred on lease and purchased outright in 1998. Ships were transferred without ASROC missiles. Sea Sprite helicopters were transferred in 1998.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

No significant events.