KDB Daruttaqwa

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Naval Ensign of Brunei.svgBrunei
Name
  • Daruttaqwa
  • (Adobe of Forbearance)
Namesake Daruttaqwa
Ordered12 July 2012
Builder Lürssen Werft
Commissioned8 September 2014
Homeport Muara
Identification
StatusActive
General characteristics
Class and type Darussalam-class offshore patrol vessel
Displacement1,625 tons
Length80 m (262 ft 6 in)
Beam13 m (42 ft 8 in)
Propulsion2 × MTU 12V diesel engines, 11,400 hp (8,500 kW)
Speed22 knots (41 km/h; 25 mph) maximum
Range7,500  nmi (13,900 km; 8,600 mi)
Endurance21 days
Boats & landing
craft carried		2 x Boomeranger boats 1 x Boomeranger Patrol Craft (1 x 7.62mm gun)
Complement55+
Sensors and
processing systems
  • Search radar: Terma Scanter 4100
  • Fire control radars: Thales Sting EO MK2
  • Navigation radar: 2 × Furuno navigation radar
Electronic warfare
& decoys
  • ESM: EDO ITT 3601
  • Decoy: Terma DL-6T Decoy Launching system
Armament
Aircraft carried1 × helicopter
Aviation facilitiesHelicopter landing platform

KDB Daruttaqwa (09) is the fourth and last ship of the Darussalam-class offshore patrol vessels. The vessel is in active service in the Royal Brunei Navy (RBN).

Contents

OPV program

Brunei ordered the Darussalam class from Lürssen, the same company that Brunei contracted to sell the Nakhoda Ragam-class corvettes, and the first two vessels were delivered in January 2011. The second batch of two ships were delivered by 2014.

Construction and career

KDB Daruttaqwa was built by Lürssen Werft company in Germany around the late 2000s. She is part of the second batch delivered from Germany to Brunei. KDB Daruttaqwa commissioned on 8 September 2014 at Muara Naval Base. All four sister ships work in the offshore patrol vessel role.

MNEK 2016

16 April 2016, KDB Daruttaqwa was sent to Padang, Indonesia for Maritime NavalExercise Komodo 2016 which is hosted by the Indonesian Navy from 12 to 16 April 2016. [1]

LIMA’19

KDB Daruttaqwa was sent on a Maritime Exercise in Langkawi, Malaysia for Langkawi International Maritime & Aerospace Exhibition 2019 (LIMA’19) which will last from 19–22 March 2019. She returned to Muara Naval Base on 5 April 2019. [2]

PLAN 70th Anniversary

On April 12, 2019, KDB Daruttaqwa left Muara Port for Qingdao, China to celebrate the 70th Anniversary of People's Liberation Army Navy. [3] KDB Daruttaqwa later on joined ADMM-Plus 2019.

ADMM-Plus 2019

KDB Daruttaqwa, HMAS Success, PLAN Xiangtan, INS Kolkata, INS Shakti, KRI Halasan, KRI Tombak, JS Murasame, JS Izumo, KD Lekiu, BRP Andres Bonifacio, RSS Stalwart, MV Avatar, ROKS Cheonjabong, ROKS Jeonbuk, ROKS Wang Geon, HTMS Bhumibol Adulyadej, USS William P. Lawrence and VPNS Quang Trung conducted ADMM-PLUS 2019 off Busan, South Korea. The ships have to conduct an exercise where they need to retake hostile vessels and rescue people overboard at sea.

All ships returned to Singapore to conduct check aboard cargo ships. KDB Daruttaqwa returned to Muara Naval Base on 20 May 2019. [4]

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References

  1. ↑ "KDB Daruttaqwa returns from 2nd Multinational Naval Exercise Komodo". Royal Brunei Navy. 25 April 2016. Retrieved 10 July 2020.
  2. ↑ "KDB DARUTTAQWA SAILS FOR DEPLOYMENT SERIES 1/2019". Ministry of Defence Brunei Darussalam. 12 March 2019. Retrieved 10 July 2020.
  3. ↑ "KDB Daruttaqwa Sets Sail to Three Destinations | Brunei's No.1 News Website". www.brudirect.com. Retrieved 2020-07-10.
  4. ↑ "ADMM-Plus Maritime Security Field Training Exercise" (PDF). Ministry of Defence Singapore. Retrieved 10 July 2020.
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