Relámpago (P-43) is the third ship of the Meteoro class, a new kind of offshore patrol vessel created for the Spanish Navy and called BAMs.
Relámpago (P-43)
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History | |
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Name | Relámpago |
Ordered | 31 July 2006 |
Builder | NAVANTIA |
Cost | €166.74m (US$224m)[1] |
Laid down | 17 December 2009 |
Launched | 6 October 2010 |
Commissioned | 6 February 2012 |
Decommissioned | In active service |
Homeport | Las Palmas Naval Base |
Identification | pennant number: P-43 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Meteoro class BAM |
Displacement | 2860 tons full load |
Length | 93.9 metres (308 ft) |
Beam | 14.2 metres (47 ft) |
Draft | 4.2 metres (14 ft) |
Propulsion |
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Speed | 20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph) |
Range | 3,500 nautical miles (6,500 km; 4,000 mi) |
Complement | 46 crew and 30 forces[2] |
Armament |
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Aircraft carried | 1 × NH-90 |
References
edit- ^ Ing, David (22 July 2014). "Two new Spanish BAM OPVs to be in service by 2019, says Navantia". IHS Jane's Navy International.
- ^ Official Web of the Spanish Navy