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Sirio 2007

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Sirio	P409		Fincantieri, Riva Trigoso	2001	11.5.2002	12.3.2005	in service (2019)
Orione	P410		Fincantieri, Riva Trigoso	29.11.2001	27.7.2002	12.3.2005	in service (2019)

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	1220
Displacement full, t	1540
Length, m	80.0 pp 86.6 oa
Breadth, m	12.2
Draught, m	3.40 hull
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 Wärtsilä W12V26XN diesels
Power, h. p.	11750
Max speed, kts	22
Fuel, t	diesel oil
Endurance, nm(kts)	6000(12)
Armament	2 x 1 - 25/87 KBA25/80, 2 x 1 - 7.6/90, helicopter deck
Electronic equipment	SPS-791, SPN-753 radars, SLQ-747 ECM suite
Complement	54 + 16 passengers

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Project history

NUPA = Nuove Unita per il Pattugliamento d'Altura (New High Seas Patrol Ships). A further, simplified version of the NUMC design, intended for fisheries and antismuggling patrol. Ordered in 2000. Plans for a third were canceled. The ships were built with funds from the Transport and Navigation Ministry. The hull and superstructure are shaped to reduce radar reflection. The boat pockets recessed into the superstructure amidships are covered by Faraday-shield mesh to eliminate radar returns, and exhaust cooling is fitted. Have a composite materials superstructure. Fin stabilizers and Flume-type passive-tank stabilization are fitted. The hull lacks the bulbous bow form given to the NUMC ships. Equipped with twin 300t/hr firefighting water monitors and a 25-t/hr oil-spill recovery pumping system. Equipped only for patrol and policing duties, with no significant air defense and no ASW capabilities; IFF and NATO Link equipment, however, can be fitted. There is provision to mount a 76mm gun forward, but it is not fitted.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

No significant events.