Wandelaar
F 912
1991
(Argos AS-02a)
- Class: Wielingen - 4 frigates of 1971
- Displacement: 1,940 tons light, 2430 tons full load
- Dimensions: 349 x 40.3 x 18.4 ft.
- Machinery: CODOG: Rolls-Royce Olympus TM3B gas turbine, P.S. 21,500; two Cockerill CO-240 V-12 Diesel, P.S. 6,000 = 26 knots
- Guns: 1 Creusot Loire 100 mm/55 Mod 68
- Missiles: 4 MM 38 Exocet; 1 Mk 29 Sea Sparrow octuple launcher
- Torpedoes: 2-533 mm
- ASW: 1-375 mm 6-barrelled mortar
- Complement: 159
- Builder: Boelwerf, Temse
- Laid down: 5 Mar 1975
- Launched: 21 Jun 1977
- Commissioned: 27 Oct 1978
- Notes: Designed as a platform capable of multiple uses as an escort during the Cold War in the North Sea and English Channel. The design was limited to weapon systems already in service by NATO navies:primarily French weapons and Dutch sensors with the hull and machinery built in Belgium. She participated in the first Gulf War in 1991. In 2004 she was sold to Bulgaria and renamed Drazki on transfer in 2005.
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