Sa'ar 2 class Missile Boat Isreali Navy Heil HaYam

Israeli Navy - Sea Corps of Israel
Sa'ar 2 class Missile Boat

sa'ar 2 class missile boat israeli navy heil hayam harpoon ssm gabriel 04x

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Ships:

Name	Commissioned	STATUS
311 INS Mivtach	1968	decommissioned 1996
312 INS Miznak	1968	decommissioned 1996
313 INS Misgav	1968	decommissioned 1996
321 INS Eilat	1969	decommissioned 1996
322 INS Haifa	1969	decommissioned 1996
323 INS Akko	1969	decommissioned 1996

Specifications:

Builder: Constructions Mécaniques de Normandie (CMN), Cherbourg, France

Displacement: 250 tons (full load)
Length: 45 meters (148 feet)
Beam: 7.62 m (25 ft)
Draft: 1.8 m (5.9 ft)
Speed: 40 knots (74 km/h), max.
Range: 2500 NMI (4600 km) at 15 knots / 1000 NMI (1850 km) at 30 knots
Complement: 40

Propulsion:
4 x MTU 16V 538 diesel engines (3200 hp / 2375 kW, each)
4 shafts / 4 propellers

Armament:
in different arrangements

1 x Mk.141 missile launcher
for up to 4 x RGM-84 Harpoon SSM

2-8 x IAI Gabriel II SSM missiles

1-2 x Bofors 40mm/L70 gun

up to 6 x Mk.32 (12.75"/324 mm) torpedo tubes

Aviation:
none

Systems:
Thomson-CSF Neptune THD 1040 air & surface surveillance radar
Selenia Orion RTN-10X fire-control radar
ELAC hull-mounted sonar
EDO 780 variable depth sonar

The Sa'ar 2 class was a class of missile boats built in Cherbourg, France at the Constructions Mécaniques de Normandie shipyard based on Israeli Navy modification of the German Navy's Jaguar-class fast attack craft.

Sa'ar 2 boats are upgraded former Sa'ar (or Sa'ar 1) class boats.

The vessels in the class come in two versions of armament.

One version is equipped with five to eight Gabriel II surface-to-surface missiles (SSM), one Bofors L/70 40 mm gun, two 0.30 in (7.62 mm) caliber M1919A4 Browning machine guns and four 7.62 mm FN MAG 58 general-purpose machine guns.

The other version is equipped with four RGM-84 Harpoon SSMs and two Gabriel II SSMs.

images

sa'ar 2 class missile boat israeli navy heil hayam harpoon ssm gabriel 02

sa'ar 2 class missile boat israeli navy heil hayam harpoon ssm gabriel torpedo tubes 03

with 4 x Mk.32 324 mm / 12.75 inches torpedo tubes

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with 2x3 Mk.32 torpedo tubes and 5 Gabriel SSM's

sa'ar 2 class missile boat israeli navy heil hayam harpoon ssm gabriel bofors 40/L70 gun 05

313 INS Misgav in Sa'ar 1 "gun only" configuration

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firing a Gabriel SSM missile

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