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Oqbah 2010

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comm	Fate
أس صديق [As Siddiq]	511		Peterson, Sturgeon Bay, USA	30.9.1978	22.9.1979	15.12.1980	in service (2019)
الفاروق [Al Farouq]	513		Peterson, Sturgeon Bay, USA	12.3.1979	17.5.1980	22.6.1981	in service (2019)
عبدال عزيز [Abdul Aziz]	515		Peterson, Sturgeon Bay, USA	19.10.1979	23.8.1980	3.9.1981	in service (2019)
فيصل [Faisal]	517		Peterson, Sturgeon Bay, USA	4.3.1980	15.11.1980	23.11.1981	in service (2019)
خالد [Khalid]	519		Peterson, Sturgeon Bay, USA	27.6.1980	28.3.1981	11.1.1982	in service (2019)
عمر [Amr]	521		Peterson, Sturgeon Bay, USA	21.10.1980	13.6.1981	21.6.1982	in service (2019)
طارق [Tariq]	523		Peterson, Sturgeon Bay, USA	10.2.1981	23.9.1981	16.8.1982	in service (2019)
عقباه [Oqbah]	525		Peterson, Sturgeon Bay, USA	8.5.1981	12.12.1981	18.10.1982	in service (2019)
أبو عبيده [Abu Obaidah]	527		Peterson, Sturgeon Bay, USA	4.9.1981	3.4.1982	6.12.1982	in service (2019)

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	425
Displacement full, t	495
Length, m	58.0
Breadth, m	8.08
Draught, m	1.95 hull
No of shafts	2
Machinery	CODOG: 1 General Electric LM-2500 gas turbine / 2 MTU 12V652 TB91 diesels
Power, h. p.	23000 / 3000
Max speed, kts	38
Fuel, t	diesel / gas turbine oil
Endurance, nm(kts)	2900(14)
Armament	2 x 2 Harpoon SSM (4 RGM-84C), 1 x 1 - 76/62 Mk 75, 1 x 6 - 20/76 Phalanx Mk 15, 2 x 1 - 20/70 Mk 10, 1 x 1 - 81/12 M29, 2 x 1 - 40/19 Mk 19 grenade launchers
Electronic equipment	SPS-55, Mk 92, Mk 90 radars, SLQ-32(v)1 ECM suite, 2x Mk 36 SRBOC decoy RL
Complement	38

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Project history

US PGG type, ordered in 1972. They have the same machinery as larger Badr class corvettes and the same armament (without ASW abilities). Heavily overweight.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

No significant events.