SHAH ALAM: ALGERIAN Navy Type C28A corvette – the Adhafer – berthed at the Boustead Cruise Centre, in Port Klang today (Oct 6, 2015). Yes, its the same China-made boat that I reported was proposed to the Royal Malaysian Navy, earlier this year.
For more on the story go here. Whether or not the visit of Adhafer, which is on her way home to Algeria – has anything to do with a renewed effort to sell the vessel to RMN is beyond me.
According to a RMN release, Adhafer, will be in Malaysia until Oct 8 for replenishment, rest and recreation. As the ship has yet to be commissioned, she did not carry the Algerian Navy jack when she came to berth. A lot of rails were also in place all over the ship as part of the safety precautions prior to the commissioning.
Adhafer is fitted mostly with China made weapons from a 76mm gun to 6 C-820 active radar homing SSM. She is also fitted with a Thales SMARTS 3-D radar together with China made Type 364 air search radar. The Thales radar is the same one to be fitted on-board RMN’s six LCS frigates.
Most interestingly, Adhafer is fitted with four MTU diesel engines which afforded the 120-metre corvette with a top speed of 27 knots. The corvette which is commanded by Lt Colonel Ali Yahi, has a crew of 120. For her maiden voyage home, 20 personnel from the Hudong=Zhonghua Shipbuilding yard are also on board.
The same shipyard is also building another two corvettes for Algeria with both expected to be delivered next year and 2017, respectively.
— Malaysian Defence.
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Most of the specification of the ship is known from open sources. Only one important information is missing...
How much does it cost for one of those ships? If anyone able to ask about that it would be great.
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Its unlikely it will be announced.
By the way that algerian "corvette" is actually bigger than our lekiu class frigates and as big as our future gowind frigates
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DCNS described the Gowinds as corvettes.
Ship's looks nice. Just use western equipments and its quite potent in my eyes. Not sure bout the others complicated stuff though. But if it can use thales smart-s mk 2 radar, then......
A frigate size corvette. What is the major factor to look at when categorizing these ships? Not by tonnage I guess. Look neat and clean, no "ripples" on the surface like some other ships I have seen.
If im not mistaken that ship is the 1st warship built in China to western Lloyd standards.
Depends entirely on the user, if it wants to designate a ship a 'frigate", "light frigate' or "corvette". Displacement off course determines how a ship is designated but also it's role.
I heard that Chinese made warships are so noisy that they are sitting ducks for submarines. Any sonar would pick up the noise. If its tru, M'sia shouldn't even think of buying Chinese, no matter how cheap it is.
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The old one maybe but the new vessels like the Adhafer should be better as the shipyard start building more and more ships.
The chinese has built special air warfare destroyers. Effecti e too apparently except that its weapons n systems are still not yested but they have more guns n anti air missiles, anti sub missiles, close in weapon systems torps too.
On another matter, Morocco is buying 120 m1a1 abrams . These are refurbished u its but all zero houred through the refurbishment. It cosr about US$340 million or about rm1 bil.
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it cost about usd 160 million.
misteri ....
C28A is design by third party company suspect fr Europe, propulsion systemis design by MTU, than pass to china to construction, china only do they system/weapon, this ship is china first time construct side exhaust navy ship.