page_title: Maharaja Lela-class frigate
section_title: Armament
hierarchical_section_title: Maharaja Lela-class frigate / Characteristics / Armament
caption_attribution_description: English: HMS Helsingborg 2 cropped
context_page_description: The Maharaja Lela-class frigates is a class of six stealth frigates being built for the Royal Malaysian Navy. The ships are based on an enlarged version of the Gowind-class corvette, designed by DCNS of France. The contract has been finalised and it has been decided that all six ships will be built by local shipbuilder Boustead Heavy Industries Corporation for the RMN at a ceiling price of RM9 billion, starting from 2015. The ships will be 111 meters long with a displacement of 3,100 tonnes.
context_section_description: The Bofors 57 mm gun will be mounted in a stealth cupola similar to the ones mounted on the Swedish Visby-class corvette. This frigate also equipped with two MSI DS30M 30 mm cannon as a secondary gun. BHIC also announced that there has been 16 Sylver VLS allocated on the deck of the ship for the surface-to-air missile although the missiles not contracted yet as 2019. At the LIMA 2015, BHIC confirmed that the Naval Strike Missile had been chosen for this frigate anti-ship missile requirement, winning over the Exocet MM40 Block 3.For the anti-submarine capabilities, it is confirmed that the ships will be equipped with two J+S fixed triple torpedo launcher.
caption: The stealth 57 mm gun to equip the SGPVs, seen with the barrel retracted
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