Gregorio del Pilar-class frigate

BRP Gregorio del Pilar (PF-15)
Class overview
Name:	Gregorio del Pilar class Frigate
Builders:	Avondale Shipyards, USA
Operators:	Philippine Navy
In service:	2011 to present
Active:	3
General characteristics
Class and type:	Gregorio del Pilar class
Type:	Frigate
Displacement:	3,250 tons
Length:	378 ft (115 m)
Beam:	43 ft (13 m)
Draft:	8.75 ft (2.67 m)
Propulsion:	Combined diesel or gas (CODOG) arrangement: 2 × Fairbanks-Morse 38TD8-1/8-12 12-cylinder diesel engines, each producing 3,500 shp (2,610 kW) Total diesel engine output: 7,000 shp (5,220 kW) 2 × Pratt & Whittney FT4A-6 gas turbines, each producing 18,000 shp (13,400 kW) Total gas turbine output: 36,000 shp (26,800 kW)
Speed:	29 knots (54 km/h)
Range:	14,000 nautical miles (25,900 km)
Endurance:	45 Days
Boats & landing craft carried:	2 × RHIB
Complement:	80
Sensors and processing systems:	Kelvin Hughes MantaDigital 25KW X-band magnetron navigational radar Kelvin Hughes MantaDigital 200KW SharpEye S-band solid state navigation/surface search radar Furuno FAR-28X7 series navigation radars Sperry Mk. 92 Mod. 1 Fire Control System
Electronic warfare & decoys:	2 × Mk.36 Super Rapid Blooming Offboard Countermeasures (SRBOC) Chaff and Decoy Launching System
Armament:	1 × Mk.75 Oto Melara 76mm Compact Cannon 2 × Mk. 38 Mod.2 25mm Autocannons (only on PF-16) 1 × Mk. 38 Mod.1 25mm Autocannon (only on PF-15) 2 × Mk. 16 Oerlikon 20mm Cannon (only on PF-15) 6 × M2HB Browning .50 Caliber Machine Guns
Aircraft carried:	1 × AgustaWestland AW109 Power naval helicopter
Aviation facilities:	retractable hangar and flight deck

The Gregorio del Pilar class is a ship class of three frigates currently in service of the Philippine Navy, and are currently the foremost surface combatant of the fleet. These ships were formerly used by the US Coast Guard as Hamilton class high endurance cutters.

Early in 2011, the Philippine Navy announced the acquisition of an ex-US Coast Guard Hamilton-class high-endurance cutter under the "Ocean-going Escort Vessel" project through the US Excess Defense Article programme. The ship acquired was the former USCGC Hamilton (WHEC-715), renamed BRP Gregorio del Pilar (PF-15) which was officially turned over to the Philippine Navy on 13 May 2011 at Alameda Point in California. It was retrofitted and modified in the US, replacing systems removed by the USCG. The ship's arrival ceremonies were on 23 August 2011 in Manila, and it was commissioned on 14 December 2011.

A second Hamilton-class cutter, the USCGC Dallas (WHEC-716), was turned over to the Philippine Navy on 22 May 2012 with ceremonies held at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center Pier Papa in North Charleston, South Carolina. The ship was named BRP Ramon Alcaraz (PF-16) in Philippine Navy service. Like its sister ship, it was retrofitted and modified in the US, replacing systems removed by the USCG. It was expected to arrive in the Philippines by February 2013. However, further training and unspecified upgrades on the ship pushed the arrival of the BRP Ramon Alcaraz to August 2013. The ship's arrival ceremony was held at Subic Harbor on August 6, 2013, led by President Aquino. It was commissioned on Nov. 22, 2013.

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