Spetsai - F453

Namesake:	Spetses
Builder:	Hellenic Shipyards Co.
Laid down:	11 August 1992
Launched:	9 December 1993
Commissioned:	24 October 1996
Status:	in active service as of 2010
Notes:	Official Hellenic Navy page
General characteristics
Class and type:	Hydra class frigate
Displacement:	3,350 tons
Length:	117 m (384 ft)
Beam:	14.8 m (49 ft)
Draft:	6 m (20 ft)
Propulsion:	2 shaft CODOG, controllable pitch propellers , 2 General Electric LM2500 gas turbines 60,656 hp 2 MTU 20V 956 diesel engines, 10,040 hp
Speed:	31-knot (57 km/h) maximum 20-knot (37 km/h) cruise
Range:	4,100 nmi (7,600 km; 4,700 mi) at 16 knots (30 km/h; 18 mph) (diesels)
Complement:	173
Sensors and processing systems:	Signaal MW08 air search radar Signaal DA08 air surface radar 2 Signaal STIR fire control radar Racal Decca 2690 BT navigation radar Raytheon SQS-56/DE 1160 hull-mounted and VDS sonar SLQ-25 Nixie torpedo decoy Mk XII Mod 4 IFF radar 2 Signaal Mk 73 Mod 1 radar for ESSM Signaal STACOS Mod 2 combat data system SAR-8 IR searcher
Electronic warfare & decoys:	Argo AR 700 ESM system Telegon 10 ESM system Argo APECS II ECM system 4 SCLAR decoy launchers
Armament:	1 × Mk 45 Mod 2A, 2 × Mk15 Phalanx 20 mm CIWS, 2 Mk141 4 × 8 Harpoon missile launchers, Mk 48 Mod 2 vertical launcher for 16 × RIM-162 ESSM, 2 Mk32 Mod 5 2 × 324mm T/T for Mk46 torpedoes
Aircraft carried:	1
Aviation facilities:	Hangar for 1 Sikorsky S-70B-6 Aegean Hawk helicopter