Template:Class box Wielingen frigate

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Westdiep
Westdiep

[edit] Wielingen class frigate

  • Builders: Flag of Belgium Belgium (Boel in Temse and Cockerill in Antwerp)
  • Type: Anti-submarine warfare and escort frigate
  • Displacement: 2,200 tons
  • Armament: 4 Exocet SSM; 8 Sea Sparrow SAM; 1 x 100 mm gun; 6 anti-submarine rockets; 2 L5 torpedo tubes
  • Powerplant: CODOG arrangement; 2 Cockerill diesel engines; 1 Rolls-Royce Olympus gas turbine
  • Speed: 28 knots (52 km/h)
  • Range: 6,000 nautical miles (11,000 km) at 16 knots (30 km/h)
  • Ships in class: 4
  • Operators: Naval flag of Belgium Belgian Navy, Naval flag of Bulgaria Bulgarian Navy
  • Commissioned: 1978
  • Fate: 2 in active service, 1 sold to Bulgaria in 2005, 1 stricken 1993