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Arab Republic of Egypt - Egyptian Naval
Force Ezzat / Ambassador MK III class Fast Missile Craft |
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Builder: VT Halter Marine, Pascagoula, Mississippi, USA Displacement: 600 tons (full load) Length: 63 meters (206 feet 8 inches) Beam: 10 m (32 ft 10 in) Draft: 2 m (6 ft 7 in) Speed: 41 knots (76 km/h) Range: 2000 NMI (3700 km) at 15 knots (28 km/h) Complement: 36 Propulsion: 4 x MTU diesel engines (30000 hp / 22 MW) 4 shafts / 4 propellers Armament: 1 x Oto-Melara (Leonardo) 76/62 super rapid gun 2 x Mk.141 missile launcher for 8 x RGM-84 Harpoon SSM 1 x 21-cell launcher for RIM-116 Rolling Airframe Missiles (RAM) 1 x Mk.15 Mod.21 Phalanx Close-in Weapon System (CIWS) Aviation: none Systems: EADS TRS-3D Naval 3D Multi-Mode Surveillance and Target Acquisition Radar Thales MRR-3D NG (G band) multi-role Radar Thales Scout (I/J band) Maritime Surveillance Radar Thales STING-EO Mk2 fire control Radar Link ASN 150, LinkYE, Link 14 and Link 11 data links TACTICOS Combat Management System with Model 033-2T/066-2T Tracking Pedestals 4 x chaff/IR Decoy launchers |
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The Ambassador MK III fast missile craft or Ezzat class is a small
warship built by VT Halter Marine for the Egyptian Navy. Four ships
were planned at a total cost of US$1.290b; the first, S. Ezzat, was
handed over in November 2013 and the remainder were scheduled to
follow in 2013-14. Egypt already operated Halter's Ambassador design
as a patrol boat for their Coast Guard fleet, and chose a variant of
the design with reduced radar cross-section as the basis for a large
modern missile boat. Its design was conducted with the assistance of
Lockheed Martin. The Egyptian Navy has used fast missile boats to patrol its coastline and defend the entrances to the strategic Suez Canal since the Soviet Union transferred Komar-class missile boats in 1962-67 and Osa-class missile boats in 1966-68. Their success in sinking the Israeli destroyer Eilat in 1967 and other targets led to the Egyptians acquiring fast attack craft from Europe and China, but the last were acquired in 1982 and by the late 1990s replacements were needed. On 7 August 2004 the Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) notified the sale of three fast missile craft to Egypt for US$565m under a U.S. Navy Foreign Military Sales program managed by the U.S. Navy's Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA). A contract was expected to be signed by the end of that year, but industry sources indicate that the program remained in limbo over technical questions that were not resolved until a meeting in Alexandria in January 2005. Phase I began in December 2005, when VT Halter Marine signed a USD 28.8m contract with the US Department of Defense to develop a functional design for a fast missile craft for the Egyptian Navy. This was a new design, sometimes referred to as the Ambassador Mk IV design. Under this phase, VT Halter Marine conducted analytical, design, engineering and model testing for the craft. The effort included preparation for the integration of C4ISR as well as a combat system effectiveness study to validate the system requirements of the vessel. The first phase was completed in December 2006. On 7 September 2008, the DSCA reported that the budget for three ships had increased to US$1.050 billion and construction finally began in November 2009. On 17 December 2009 the DSCA announced that a fourth vessel would be procured for an additional US$240m, increasing the program cost to US$1.290 billion. In May 2010, the Egyptian Navy was in discussions for the procurement of two additional units (five and six). These units could begin around 2014. source: wikipedia |
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