João Belo-class frigate
NRP Comandante João Belo (F480)
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| Class overview | |
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| Name: | João Belo (modified Commandant Rivière) |
| Builders: | AC de Nantes, France |
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| Preceded by: | Almirante Pereira da Silva class |
| In commission: | 1967 - present day |
| Completed: | 4 |
| Active: | 2 (Uruguay) |
| Scrapped: | 2 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | Frigate |
| Displacement: | 1,750 tons standard, 2,230 tons full load |
| Length: | 102.7 m (337 ft) |
| Beam: | 11.5 m (38 ft) |
| Draught: | 4.3 m (14 ft) |
| Propulsion: | 2 shaft 4 diesel engines SEMT Pielstick V12 PC2 16,000 hp (12 MW) |
| Speed: | 25 kn (46 km/h; 29 mph) |
| Range: | 7,500 nmi (13,900 km; 8,600 mi) at 16 kn (30 km/h; 18 mph) |
| Boats & landing craft carried: |
LCPS boats |
| Complement: |
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| Sensors and processing systems: |
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| Electronic warfare & decoys: |
ARBR10 radar detector |
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The João Belo class, also known as Comandante João Belo class, is a class of four frigates of French design, identical to the Commandant Rivière class, with extra equipment for tropical climates. Ordered by the Portuguese Navy in 1964, the four ships of this class were constructed at the shipyard in Nantes.
In the 1960s the Portuguese Navy was interested in the acquisition of British frigates of the Leander class, but because of British political opposition against Portugal this acquisition was impossible. Portugal was then forced to buy frigates of an already existing project due the urgency in the acquisition of naval ships for the defense of African, Macanese and Timorese waters.
The two remaining frigates in active service of this class were replaced, in 2008, by the Bartolomeu Dias class (Dutch Karel Doorman class) in the Portuguese Navy. NRP João Belo and NRP Sacadura Cabral were sold to the Uruguayan Navy, becoming, respectively ROU Uruguay and ROU Pedro Campbell.
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