F88 Broadsword (Type 22 Broadsword Class Batch 1)


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Laid down 7th February 1975
Launched 12th May 1976
Completed 24th January 1979
Commissioned 3rd May 1979
Fate Sold:
1995 to Brazil
Builders Yarrow, Scotstoun
United Kingdom
Complement 235
Dimensions
Displacement 4000 tons std
4500 tons max
Dimensions 430' x 48' 5"
Draught 19' 9"
Armament
Main guns 2 x 40mm Bofors (2 x 1)
Secondary guns None
Torpedoes As built:
None
1982:
6 x 12.75" STWS-2 tubes (2 x 3)
Other weapons SSM:
4 x MM38 Exocet (4 x 1)
SAM:
2 x GWS25 SeaWolf launchers (2 x 6)
32 rounds
Countermeasures As built:
4 x Corvus decoy launchers
HIRAM decoy flares
Refitted:
4 x Corvus decoy launchers
2 x SRBOC decoy launchers
HIRAM decoy flares
Armour N/A
Aircraft Facilities
Aircraft 2 x Westland Lynx HAS1
Flightdeck N/A
Hangar N/A
Catapults None
Arrestor system None
Aviation fuel N/A
Electronics Fit
Radar Type 1006 navigation
2 x Type 910 tracking
Type 967 surveillance
Type 968 surveillance
Sonar Type 2016 passive/active hull mounted
Type 162M target classification
Type 2008 comunications
ECM Thorn Guardian jammers
Other GWS50 Exocet fire control
GWS25 Mod 0 SeaWolf fire control
CAISS combat data control
UAA-1 ESM
SNAPS navigation
Machinery
Engines COGOG
2 x Rolls Royce Olympus TM3B gas turbines
2 x Rolls Royce Tyne RM1A gas turbines

4 x Paxman Ventura diesel generators
Power output 50000shp Olympus
8500shp Tyne
4MW diesel generators
Speed 30kts Olympus
18kts Tyne
Shafts 2
Range 4500NM @ 18kts
Fuel 600 tons oil

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