![]() RSS Vigilance and RSS Steadfast during CARAT 2010 | |
History | |
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Name | Vigilance |
Namesake | Vigilance |
Builder | ST Engineering |
Launched | 27 April 1989 |
Commissioned | 18 August 1990 |
Homeport | Tuas |
Identification |
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Status | Active [1] |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Victory-class corvette |
Displacement | 595 t (586 long tons; 656 short tons) |
Length | 62 m (203 ft 5 in) |
Beam | 8.5 m (27 ft 11 in) |
Draught | 2.6 m (8 ft 6 in) |
Propulsion | |
Speed |
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Range | 4,000 nmi (7,400 km) at 18 knots (33 km/h; 21 mph) |
Complement | 49 with 8 officers |
Sensors and processing systems |
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Electronic warfare & decoys | |
Armament |
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Aircraft carried | 1× Boeing ScanEagle unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) |
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