Fridtjof Nansen class frigate

Norwegian Navy frigate ship bridge

F310 Fridtjof Nansen




F312 Otto Sverdrup

The Royal Norwegian Navy Fridtjof Nansen class multi mission frigates have an integrated weapon system based on the Aegis command system in service on US Navy Ticonderoga cruisers and Arleigh Burke destroyers.A total of five will enter service between 2006 and 2010. Total project cost is $3 billion. builded by Navantia of Spain,with helps from Lockheed Martin and the U.S. Navy.
weapons
main gun:Oto Melara SuperRapid 76mm naval gun has a rate of fire of 120 rounds a minute.
missile:two modules each with four launch tubes for the NSM (naval strike missile developed by Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace)long-range anti-ship missile and eight-cell mk41 vls for the evolved Sea Sparrow missile (ESSM) has the capacity for 32 missiles
4 × torpedo tubes for Sting Ray torpedoes a British acoustic homing light-weight torpedo (LWT) manufactured by BAE Systems

specification
Displacement: 5,290 tons full load
dimensions
Length: 137.25m
Beam: 16.8m
Draft: 4.9m
Propulsion: Combined diesel and gas (CODAG)
one GE LM 2500 19.2MW gas turbine and two Navantia Bravo 12V 4.5MW diesel engines.The ship has two shafts with controllable pitch propellers, two rudders and a pair of active stabilising fins.

Speed: 27 knots
Range: 4,500nm at 16 knots
Complement: 120
Prepared weapons but not equipped with:
1 × Otobreda 127 mm/54 gun to replace the 76 mm
1 × spare 76mm OTO Melara Super Rapid gun
1 × spare CIWS gun w/ calibre 40 mm or less
3 × spare 8- cell Mk41 VLS launchers
Low cost ASW
ECM: Active Off-board Decoy
Aircraft carried:NH90 ASW helicopter with Thales Underwater Systems' flash sonics dipping sonar system and anti-submarine torpedoes.