On September 18, 2009, Malaysia's first submarine, the KD Tunku Abdul Rahman, a Scorpene class diesel-electric submarine, reached home port for the first time, i.e. the Teluk Sepanggar RMN naval base, Sabah.
In a nutshell, the lowdown for the Scorpene is:
Displacment: 1,700 tons
Propulsion: Diesel-Electric
Speed: 20 knots submerged, 12 knots surfaced
Armament: 6 bow-mounted 533mm torpedo tubes, with provision for
torpedoes, missiles and mines
Showing posts with label Royal Malaysian Naval Vessels. Show all posts
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Saturday, September 26, 2009
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Kedah Class OPV/NPGV
Realising a need to replace some of its aging patrol vessels, the RMN launched a project in the 1990s to construct a new generation of Offshore Patrol Vessels (OPVs). Germany's Blohm + Voss (a subsidary of ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems) got the contract and based the Kedah class on its MEKO (MEhrzweck-KOmbination - mulitipurpose combination) concept.
The Type MEKO-100 RMN project was put into action with the signing of the contract for 6 vessels - the KD Kedah, the KD Pahang, the KD Perak, the KD Terengganu, the KD Kelantan and the KD Selangor. A further 21 more ships are in the works but are not confirmed yet.
The Kedah class OPV has 2 Caterpillar diesel engines chruning out 16,000 hp to variable-pitch propellers which can propel the vessel at over 22 knots. The ship is also designed to have low noise and radar detectability, and better heat dissipation via horizontal exhausts cooled with seawater. Provision is made for an Otobreda (formerly Oto Melara) 76 mm rapid-fire (85 rpm) main gun and a 30 mm Otobreda or Mauser short-range gun, as well as two 12.7 mm machine guns. There are also plans to equip the vessel with a RIM-116 (rolling airframe missile) antiaircraft weapon system. Much automation is also incorporated to run the ship's various electrical and engineering systems. Besides that, the ship has what one would term a 'Plug and Play' modular configuration with easy installation of components.
Production is undergoing at Penang's PSC Naval Dockyard with Blohm + Voss as a major subcontractor.
The Type MEKO-100 RMN project was put into action with the signing of the contract for 6 vessels - the KD Kedah, the KD Pahang, the KD Perak, the KD Terengganu, the KD Kelantan and the KD Selangor. A further 21 more ships are in the works but are not confirmed yet.
The Kedah class OPV has 2 Caterpillar diesel engines chruning out 16,000 hp to variable-pitch propellers which can propel the vessel at over 22 knots. The ship is also designed to have low noise and radar detectability, and better heat dissipation via horizontal exhausts cooled with seawater. Provision is made for an Otobreda (formerly Oto Melara) 76 mm rapid-fire (85 rpm) main gun and a 30 mm Otobreda or Mauser short-range gun, as well as two 12.7 mm machine guns. There are also plans to equip the vessel with a RIM-116 (rolling airframe missile) antiaircraft weapon system. Much automation is also incorporated to run the ship's various electrical and engineering systems. Besides that, the ship has what one would term a 'Plug and Play' modular configuration with easy installation of components.
Production is undergoing at Penang's PSC Naval Dockyard with Blohm + Voss as a major subcontractor.
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