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Lampo 1980

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
MC491, 9.1965- Lampo	P491		Arsenale Taranto		22.11.1960	4.1963	stricken 4.1985
MC492, 9.1965- Baleno	P492		Arsenale Taranto		10.6.1964	7.1965	stricken 5.1985

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	170
Displacement full, t	196
Length, m	43.0
Breadth, m	6.30
Draught, m	1.50
No of shafts	3
Machinery	CODAG: 1 Metrovick gas turbine + 2 Fiat diesels
Power, h. p.	4500+7200 = 11700
Max speed, kts	39
Fuel, t	diesel oil
Endurance, nm(kts)
Armament	3 x 1 - 40/70 Breda type 107 or (1 x 1 - 40/70 Breda type 107, 4 - 450 TT) or (2 x 1 - 40/70 Breda type 107, 2 - 533 TT)
Electronic equipment	3ST7-250 radar
Complement	33

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Project history

Improved versions of Folgore (1957 programme). They were designed as convertible boats. They were the first Italian warships to have gas turbines.

Modernizations

1975, both: Fiat diesels were replaced by MTU 518D diesels.

Naval service

No significant events.