RSS Supreme arrives at Pearl Harbor during RIMPAC 2010. | |
History | |
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Singapore | |
Name | Supreme |
Namesake | Supreme |
Ordered | March 2000 |
Builder | ST Engineering |
Launched | 9 May 2006 |
Commissioned | 16 January 2009 |
Homeport | Changi |
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Motto | Surpassing All Always |
Status | Active |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Formidable-class frigate |
Displacement | 3,200 tonnes (3,100 long tons; 3,500 short tons) |
Length | 114.8 m (376 ft 8 in) |
Beam | 16.3 m (53 ft 6 in) |
Draught | 6.0 m (19 ft 8 in) |
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Propulsion |
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Speed |
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Range | 4,200 nautical miles (7,800 km) |
Complement | 71, excluding air crew detachment of approx. 19 |
Sensors and processing systems |
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Aircraft carried | 1× S-70B Seahawk multi-mission capable naval helicopter |
Aviation facilities | Flight deck and enclosed hangar for up to two medium-lift helicopters |
RSS Supreme (73) is the sixth ship of the Formidable-class stealth frigate of the Republic of Singapore Navy.
RSS Supreme was built by ST Marine Engineering company in Singapore in the late 2000s. Supreme was commissioned on 16 January 2009. [3]
RSS Supreme participated in RIMPAC 2010 from 23 June to 1 August 2010. RSS Supreme fired her Aster 15 Surface-to-Air Missile (SAM) off the coast of Hawaii. Chief of Navy Rear-Admiral Chew Men Leong was on board to observe the live-firing exercises. [4]
RSS Vigour, RSS Stalwart and RSS Supreme conducted a joint exercise with USS Chung-Hoon on 23 August 2011. [5]
In December 2014, Supreme was deployed in the search for Airasia Flight QZ8501 after it crashed into the Java Sea on 28 December 2014; along with the RSN ships Persistence , Valour , and Kallang , MV Swift Rescue, and two Lockheed C-130H Hercules. [6] [7] [8]
The Republic of Singapore Navy and the Royal Australian Navy conducted a passage exercise which consists of RSS Supreme, HMAS Darwin and HMAS Adelaide. One of HMAS Adelaide's MRH-90 helicopter lands on Supreme's deck. [9]
On 6 April 2018, RSS Supreme and RSS Valiant underwent alongside USS Sampson and USS Theodore Roosevelt off Singapore. [10]
RSS Supreme and USNS Carl Brasher conducted a replenish at sea on 26 June 2020. [11]
RSS Supreme joined HMAS Stuart, HMAS Sirius, USS Rafael Peralta and KDB Darulehsan on their way to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii in preparation for RIMPAC 2020 on 6 August. RIMPAC 2020 is scheduled to start on 17 August. [12]
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