SAS Amatola
F 145
2007
(Argos AS-105)
- Class: Valour - 4 frigates of 1999
- Displacement: 3,700 tons
- Dimensions: 397 x 53.5 x 19.5 ft
- Machinery: CODAG WARP: 2 diesels 5,920kW each, 2 shafts for cruise; 1 gas turbine 20,000kW, 1 waterjet = 30 knots
- Guns: 1-76mm OTO Breda, 2-35mm LIW Denel 35DPG, 2-20mm Oerlikon
- Missiles: 8 MBDA MM40 Exocet (2 quad launchers); 16 Umkhonko SAM (2 8-cell launchers)
- Torpedoes: 4-324mm (2x2) tubes
- Helicopters: 1 SuperLynx 300
- Complement: 117
- Builder: Blohm & Voss, Hamburg, Germany
- Laid down: 6 Aug 2001
- Launched: 6 Jun 2002
- Completed: 16 Feb 2006
- Notes: Amatola is the first of four Valour-class (MEKO A-200SAN) frigates built for the South African Navy by the European South African Corvette Consortium. Sister ships Isandlwana (F 146), Spioenkop (F 147), and Mendi (F 148).
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