Moroccan Royal Navy – Frigate
F 613 - RMNS Tarik Ben Ziad
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Type, Class:		SIGMA 10513 class multi-mission Frigate
Builder:		Damen-Schelde Naval Shipbuilding, Vlissingen, The Netherlands
STATUS:		Laid down: April 2009 Launched: July 12, 2010 Commissioned: August 2011 ACTIVE UNIT/ in commission
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Namesake:		Tarik Ben Ziad (or Tariq ibn Ziyad) (see namesake description below)
Technical Data: (Measures, Propulsion, Armament, Aviation, etc.)		Length: 105,11 meters Beam: 13,02 meters Draft: 3,75 meters Displacement: 2335 tons Speed: 26 knots (48 km/h) maximal / 18 knots (33 km/h) cruise Range: at 18 knots 3600 Nm (6700 km) / at 14 knots 4800 Nm (8900 km) Crew: up to 110 Aviation/Hangar: flight deck and hangar for 1 medium-size helicopter (5 tons) Propulsion: 2 x SEMT-Pielstick 20PA6B STC diesel engines rated at 8910 kW each driving a lightweight Geislinger coupling combination BE 72/20/125N + BF 110/50/2H (steel - composite coupling combination) 4 x Caterpillar 3406C TA generator rated at 350 kW each 1 x Caterpillar 3304B emergency generator rated at 105 kW 2 shafts with Rolls Royce Kamewa 5 bladed CP propeller Armament: Anti-air missile: MBDA MICA vertical launch SAM Anti-surface missile: MBDA Exocet MM40 SSM Gun: 1 x Oto Melara 76/62 Super Rapid 2 x 20 mm MG Torpedoes: 2 x B515 launchers for EuroTorp A244/S Mod.3 Electronic Warfare: THALES VIGILE 100 ESM System THALES SCORPION ECM System TERMA SKWS Decoy System Combat Data System: THALES TACTICOS Combat Management System Weapon Control System: THALES LIROD Mk2 3D Radar/Optronic Director Radar: THALES SMART-S Mk2 3D Surveillance Radar (up to 250 km range) Sonar: THALES KINGKLIP hull-mounted sonar
ship images
thank’s to Mario Vercoutter from Belgium (6 photos)
THALES images
Tarik Ben Ziad (or Tariq ibn Ziyad): Tarik Ben Ziad (died 720) was a Muslim Berber general who led the Islamic conquest of Visigothic Hispania in 711 A.D. He is considered to be one of the most important military commanders in Iberian history. Under the orders of the Umayyad Caliph Al-Walid I he led a large army from the north coast of Morocco, consolidating his troops at a large hill now known as Gibraltar. The name "Gibraltar" is the Spanish derivation of the Arabic name Jabal Tāriq, meaning "mountain of Tariq", named after him. Little is known of his early life, but he is believed to have been a Berber from North Africa. In his work on the origins of Berbers, Ibn Khaldun, albeit without any references, categorises him as belonging to "the branch of Ulhasa" (French: Oulhaça). It appears likely that Ibn Khaldun obtained this information from the writings of the historian Ibn Idhari author of the Al Bayan Al Moghrib (News of Morocco). According to Ibn Khaldun, the Ulhasa tribes, could be found at that time on both sides of the Tafna river frontier between modern Algeria and Morocco. On April 29 711, the armies of Tariq, composed of recent converts to Islam, landed at Gibraltar (the name Gibraltar is derived from the Arabic name Jabal al Tariq, which means mountain of (the) Tariq, or the more obvious Gibr Tariq, meaning rock of Tariq).
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