BAM Rayo Maritime Action Ship (Spain) wikipedia

6. BAM Maritime Action Ship (Spain) – $116 million

The BAM (Buque de Acción Marítima) ships are new modular Offshore Patrol Vessels of the Spanish Navy adapted to different purposes from a common base, manufactured by Navantia. The BAMs combine high performance with mission versatility, a high commonality with other ships operated by the Spanish navy.

Type: Offshore Patrol Vessel (OPV)
Displacement: 2,670 t (full load)[citation needed] Length: 93.9 m (308 ft)
Beam: 14.2 m (47 ft)
Draft: 4.2 m (14 ft)
Propulsion: 2 diesel engines, 4 groups diesel generators, 2 electric motors propellers
1 Emergency generator, Located 2 cross bow thruster
Speed: 20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph)+
Range: 3,500 mi (3,000 nmi; 5,600 km) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph)
Complement: 46 crew and 30 forces[citation needed] Armament: 1 cannon 76/62 mm gun,  2 25 mm Automatic Mountings, 2 × 12.7 mm machine guns
Aircraft carried: 1 × NH-90 hellicopter
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Sigma

7. Sigma (Indonesian/Moroccan) – $222 million

The Sigma class corvette is a Dutch-built Navy vessel. It is a corvette or frigate with ocean capabilities.

Type: Corvette or Frigate
Displacement: 1,692 tons
Length: 90.71 meters (297.62 feet)
Beam: 13.02 meters (42.72 feet)
Draft: 3.60 meters (11.81 feet)
Propulsion: 2 x SEMT Pielstick 20PA6B STC 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 x shaft with Rolls Royce Kamewa 5 bladed CP propeller
2 x Renk ASL94 single step reduction gear[1] with passive roll stabilization
Speed: Maximum: 28 knots (52 km/h)
Cruising: 18 knots (33 km/h)
Economy: 14 knots (26 km/h)
Range: At cruising speed of 18 knots (33 km/h): 3,600 Nm (6,700 km)
At economy speed of 14 knots (26 km/h): 4,800 Nm (8,900 km)
Crews: 20, up to 80
Sensors and processing systems: Combat System: Thales Group TACTICOS[2] with 4 x Multifunction Operator Console Mk 3 2H
Search radar: MW08 3D multibeam surveillance radar
IFF: Thales TSB 2525 Mk XA (integrated with MW08)
Navigation radar: Sperry Marine BridgeMasterE ARPA radar
Fire control radar: LIROD Mk 2 tracking radar
Data Link: LINK Y Mk 2 datalink system
Sonar: Thales UMS 4132 Kingklip medium frequency active/passive ASW hull mounted sonar
Internal Communications: Thales Communication’s Fibre Optical COmmunications Network (FOCON) or EID’s ICCS where on-board users have access to internal and/or external communication channels and integrated remote control of communications equipment
Satellite Comms: Nera F series
Navigation System: Raytheon Anschutz integrated navigation
Integrated Platform Management System: Imtech UniMACs 3000 Integrated Bridge System[3] Electronic warfare and decoys: ESM: Thales DR3000
ECM: Racal Scorpion 2L
Decoy: TERMA SKWS, DLT-12T 130mm decoy launchers, port, starboard
Armament: Guns: 1 x Oto Melara 76 mm (A position)
2 x 20 mm Denel GI-2 (Licensed copy of GIAT M693/F2) (B position)
Anti-air missile: 2 x quad (8) MBDA Mistral TETRAL, forward & aft
Anti-surface missile: 4 x MBDA Exocet MM40 Block II
Torpedoes: 2 x triple B515 launchers for EuroTorp 3A 244S Mode II/MU 90
Aviation facilities: landing pad, optional hangar
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  1. I’m upset on how our military officials procure our defensive military assets. The two planned brandnew frigates had sunk before it was procured. The coastal based defensive missile from Israel was cancelled for personnel protective gears…. i think, these two items i mentioned above is more vital for the protection of our soverienty than those protective gears.

    Now, comes again these corvettes. Very affordable indeed. But its useless to plan if those people involve in procuring these assets do not have the will to proceed.

    Are we only have to depend on giveaways by friendly countries? Beggars!!!

  2. Just imagine, VP Binay is accusing Pnoy of having saved 303 B for the cofers of the coming election. That’s $6 Billion. Imagine what it can do for the minimum credible defense program. All of that will be funded 4X over!

  4. Ex-Cong. Roilo Golez has a good point. Even if 2 new frigates are being built somewhere which was inadvertently announced by a retired naval officer, at approx. P16 billion pesos for 2 second hand Maestrale class frigates, our country will have 2 operational frigates with proper armaments that can already be deployed at the West Phil. Sea side of the South China Sea. Pres. BSA III can easily come up with the funds to purchase both second hand frigates from Italy. At this early, the president should also start scouting and buying new multi purpose fighter jets with appropriate modern weapons as a step ahead, by the time the FA-50 fighter jets arrived from South Korea, the training of our PAF fighter pilots can go step ladder from trainer jet to real multi jet fighter pilot capabilities. At least 12 new multi purpose fighter jets should be purchase NOW with expected initial delivery of 1 year from now. How about buying 2nd hand F-16 fighter jets from the US inventory which are at the moment mothballed for future use? We enjoin the DND secretary and his coterie of senior military officers to present to the president their urgent military upgrade requirements instead of just awaiting for the 2nd, 3rd and 4th horizon military modernization project duration to take its rather long delayed timelines.

  5. Acquire at least 5 swedish visiby class corvettes
    maybe that will scared a couple of chinese fishermen

  8. the AFP modernization particularly purchasing modern equipment such as MRF, Frigates, Tanks, Air defense systems etc should be fact tracked. this is very much needed right now!

  10. The sigma, visby, baynunah, port of Spain and felaj 2 in my opinion would be awesome for our navy. If I have to pick one it would be the felaj 2 because of its price and the amount of armaments it could carry. But, if the budget is bigger, I’d go for the sigma. It’s modular design would be a great asset for the Navy. It could be a corvette, heavy corvette, light frigate. You can add or remove segments from the ship to make it bigger or smaller depending on the mission and everything can be done at the base where it came from. It doesn’t have to go to the ship yard for that. (Citation needed ). There are different variants to this ship. But I think this would be a great addition for the Navy.

  11. Modern ships do not help if they don’t have over the horizon anti-ship missiles, at least a Harpoon or Naval Strike Missile, in order to counter threat ships, otherwise they just become expensive target practice for PLAN ships. A smaller PLAN Type 056 corvette carries at least 4 x YJ-83 missiles which can sink any Philippine vessel from 180 km. All Philippine navy frigates and corvettes have are 76 mm guns. They will all be sunk before they even knew what happened. Better to invest in a stand-off anti-ship capability. Also, they need SM-3 Surface-to-Air missiles in order to protect themselves from incoming enemy missiles and aircraft. These missiles cost far less than a new frigate and would make even existing ships more potent. It is not the size or the number of ships, it is their capability that counts. Better to have less, but more capable ships than a bunch of expensive targets.

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