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SABHAN fast attack craft (missile) (1984/1990)


Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
سبحان [Sabhan]     Lürssen, Vegesack, West Germany     9.8.1984 // 8.1990 sunk 1-2/1991


Technical data


Displacement standard, t

353

Displacement full, t

425

Length, m

54.4 wl 58.1 oa

Breadth, m

7.62

Draught, m

2.83

No of shafts

4

Machinery

4 MTU 16V956 TB91 diesels

Power, h. p.

18000

Max speed, kts

36

Fuel, t

diesel oil

Endurance, nm(kts)

1300(30)

Armament

2 x 2 MM40 Exocet SSM (4 MM40), 1 x 1 - 76/62 OTO-Melara Compact, 1 x 2 - 40/70 Breda-Bofors Compact Twin 40, 2 x 1 - 7.6/90, mines

Electronic equipment

Decca 1226, 9LV200, S810 radars, Matilda ECM suite, Dagaie decoy RL

Complement

39



Standard scale images


<i>Sabhan </i>1990
Sabhan 1990


Project history

Istiqlal-class fast attack craft of FPB57 design, served in Kuwaiti Navy and captured in 1990 during the Iraqi invasion to Kuwait.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

Sabhan was sunk by Allied forces in January-February 1991.