HaMedinat Yisrael
12-11-2008, 03:30
פרס (Peres) Class Patrol Frigate
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Executive Summary
While the Israeli Naval Yards has been building many larger vessels in recent years, corvette designs have not been approved. Chief of Naval Operations, Fleet Admiral Joseph Jacobson has addressed this issue in his 05-06 State of the Navy Report. He called on the design bureaus in Israel to come up with new designs for corvettes. INY, Israeli Military Industries, and Kineret Defense each came up with competing designs. INY won the contract, but adapted the design to incorporate some of the better systems conceived by the competing designs. The final design of the vessel was 3,175 tons. This made it too large to classify as a corvette. As a result, the vessel was rebranded a patrol frigate.
The Peres was built to fill a void of vessels that can patrol and protect Israel's coast. The vessels are capable of going out on the open ocean and dealing with foreign threats, but that was not the focus of the design board in creating the class. The vessel is the first to mount Israeli Aerospace Industries' Second Generation upgrade of IDIs Mk-1 Mod-0 Integrated Point Defense System.
The vessel is unable to carry the larger near-hypersonic SSMs, but it can mount the upgraded version of the venerable Gabriel SSM. The 24 cell VLS system can carry any arrangement of SAMs or ASW Missiles. In order to save costs, torpedo tubes were not included.
A few minor drawbacks of the vessel are the lack of tubes. The patrol frigate also cannot land a helicopter, but the use of land based maritime patrol aircraft and helicopters makes up for this problem. A third and final flaw is the fact that the point defense fails to cover 45 degrees to either side of the bow. The ship will just have to maneuver appropriately to use its dual point defense systems.
Stats
Length: 345 feet, 105.15 meters
Beam: 30 feet, 9.15 meters
Draft: 20.5 feet, 6.25 meters
Displacement:
Empty: 2,650 tons
Standard: 3,175 tons
Full: 3,550 tons
Powerplant: 2 x Kinneret Engineering KEM3F Marine Turboshaft Gas Turbines producing 29,000 shp each or 21.7 MW each of electric energy if attached to an electric generator.
Speed:
20 knots cruising
34 knots max speed (sustainable for 3 hours)
Range: 4,800 nm at 20 kts
Crew: 9 officers and 80 enlisted men
Sensors
RADAR:
IDI Caleb I Mod 1 integrated RADAR system
IDI Caleb I Mod 1 Search RADAR
IDI Mk-78 Fire Control RADAR
IDI Mk-80 Navigation RADAR tied into ECDIS
SONAR:
IDC SBS-3 bow mounted active/passive SONAR
IDC STS-1 Mod 1 Towed SONAR Array
Armament
MISSILES:
4 x IAI S-12 SSM Box Launchers (removable for stealth operations)
1 x 24 cell IAI V-2 VLS System in 6 x 4 arrangement. V-2 is a mid sized VLS cell that is used by the Israeli Navy. The individual cell dimensions are .7 m x .7 x 7.5 m. The SPYDER missiles can be quad-packed in this cell which can also carry anti-ship or land attack cruise missiles along with larger SAMs or even ASW missiles.
GUNS:
1 x 4 inch/55 calibers IMI G-41 with ERGM shells (80 shells normally carried)
POINT DEFENSE
1 x IAI/IDI Second Generation Mk-2 Integrated Point Defense System (comprises of)
IAI NSA 3 Box launcher with 21 SAA-4 Point Defense Missiles
IDI NAA 30 mm autocannon with 4,500 rounds
Price = 392,157,000 NIS, $600,000,000
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Executive Summary
While the Israeli Naval Yards has been building many larger vessels in recent years, corvette designs have not been approved. Chief of Naval Operations, Fleet Admiral Joseph Jacobson has addressed this issue in his 05-06 State of the Navy Report. He called on the design bureaus in Israel to come up with new designs for corvettes. INY, Israeli Military Industries, and Kineret Defense each came up with competing designs. INY won the contract, but adapted the design to incorporate some of the better systems conceived by the competing designs. The final design of the vessel was 3,175 tons. This made it too large to classify as a corvette. As a result, the vessel was rebranded a patrol frigate.
The Peres was built to fill a void of vessels that can patrol and protect Israel's coast. The vessels are capable of going out on the open ocean and dealing with foreign threats, but that was not the focus of the design board in creating the class. The vessel is the first to mount Israeli Aerospace Industries' Second Generation upgrade of IDIs Mk-1 Mod-0 Integrated Point Defense System.
The vessel is unable to carry the larger near-hypersonic SSMs, but it can mount the upgraded version of the venerable Gabriel SSM. The 24 cell VLS system can carry any arrangement of SAMs or ASW Missiles. In order to save costs, torpedo tubes were not included.
A few minor drawbacks of the vessel are the lack of tubes. The patrol frigate also cannot land a helicopter, but the use of land based maritime patrol aircraft and helicopters makes up for this problem. A third and final flaw is the fact that the point defense fails to cover 45 degrees to either side of the bow. The ship will just have to maneuver appropriately to use its dual point defense systems.
Stats
Length: 345 feet, 105.15 meters
Beam: 30 feet, 9.15 meters
Draft: 20.5 feet, 6.25 meters
Displacement:
Empty: 2,650 tons
Standard: 3,175 tons
Full: 3,550 tons
Powerplant: 2 x Kinneret Engineering KEM3F Marine Turboshaft Gas Turbines producing 29,000 shp each or 21.7 MW each of electric energy if attached to an electric generator.
Speed:
20 knots cruising
34 knots max speed (sustainable for 3 hours)
Range: 4,800 nm at 20 kts
Crew: 9 officers and 80 enlisted men
Sensors
RADAR:
IDI Caleb I Mod 1 integrated RADAR system
IDI Caleb I Mod 1 Search RADAR
IDI Mk-78 Fire Control RADAR
IDI Mk-80 Navigation RADAR tied into ECDIS
SONAR:
IDC SBS-3 bow mounted active/passive SONAR
IDC STS-1 Mod 1 Towed SONAR Array
Armament
MISSILES:
4 x IAI S-12 SSM Box Launchers (removable for stealth operations)
1 x 24 cell IAI V-2 VLS System in 6 x 4 arrangement. V-2 is a mid sized VLS cell that is used by the Israeli Navy. The individual cell dimensions are .7 m x .7 x 7.5 m. The SPYDER missiles can be quad-packed in this cell which can also carry anti-ship or land attack cruise missiles along with larger SAMs or even ASW missiles.
GUNS:
1 x 4 inch/55 calibers IMI G-41 with ERGM shells (80 shells normally carried)
POINT DEFENSE
1 x IAI/IDI Second Generation Mk-2 Integrated Point Defense System (comprises of)
IAI NSA 3 Box launcher with 21 SAA-4 Point Defense Missiles
IDI NAA 30 mm autocannon with 4,500 rounds
Price = 392,157,000 NIS, $600,000,000