![]() KD Pahang underway on 19 May 2007 | |
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Name | Pahang |
Namesake | Pahang |
Builder | HDW, Kiel |
Laid down | 21 December 2001 |
Launched | 2 October 2003 |
Commissioned | 3 August 2006 |
Identification | Pennant number: F172 |
Status | Active |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Kedah-class offshore patrol vessel |
Displacement | 1,850 tons full load |
Length | 91.1 m (299 ft) |
Beam | 12.85 m (42.2 ft) |
Draught | 3.4 m (11 ft) |
Propulsion | Main Propulsion: 2x Caterpillar 3616 (5,450kW) diesel, 16,000 bhp, 2 shafts, 2 controllable pitch propellers |
Speed | 24 knots (44 km/h; 28 mph) |
Range | 6,050 nautical miles (11,200 km; 6,960 mi) |
Endurance | 21 days |
Complement | 78 (accom. for 98) |
Sensors and processing systems |
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Electronic warfare & decoys |
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Armament |
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Aircraft carried | 1 x Super Lynx 300 |
Aviation facilities |
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KD Pahang (F172) is the second ship of Kedah-class offshore patrol vessel of the Royal Malaysian Navy. She was commissioned on 3 August 2006.
In the 1990s, the Royal Malaysian Navy identified the need to replace their ageing patrol boats. These 31 m long vessels built by Vosper Ltd with a displacement of 96 tons had been in service since the 1960s. [1] After receiving government approval, the Malaysian Navy ran a competition for the design in 1996, planning to purchase 27 vessels over 15 years. The specifications aimed for a design with a displacement of 1,300 tons and an overall length of 80 m. It was already noted at that time that this resembled full-fledged corvettes rather than patrol vessels, but the eventual winning bid would turn out to be even larger. [2] The Australian bid proposed a Joint Patrol Vessel, to be designed by Australian Transfield Shipbuilding and subsequently purchased by the Malaysian Navy as well as the Royal Australian Navy. [3] Other contenders were the German Naval Group consortium as well as British shipyards Vosper Thornycroft and Yarrow Shipbuilders.
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Pahang was laid down on 21 December 2001 at Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft, Kiel and launched on 2 October 2003. She was commissioned on 3 August 2006.
KD Pahang was involved in Anti-piracy measures in Somalia in 2008. [7]
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