Type 23 Frigate

Type 23 Frigate 	Type 23 Frigate
 	
Class Overview 	Class Overview
Planned 	11
Completed 	16
Active 	11
Launch Year(s) 	1989-2002
Operators 	The European Federation
General Characteristics	General Characteristics
Type 	Frigate
Length 	133m
Beam 	16m
Draught 	7m
Powerplant 	2x Rolls-Royce Marine Spey, 2x GEC electric motors, 4x Paxman Valenta 12CM diesel generators.
Speed 	28kn
Complement 	185
Armament 	
*32x Onager VLS Canisters, each holding up to eight Skybane SAMs, eight Buckler ABMs, a single Granite multi-purpose guided missile, or a single ASTER-30 dual purpose ABM/SAM.
*Mk 8 4.5” Naval Gun.
*2x 30mm SCGS.
*12x RMG 12.7mm.
*2x DWF GMG.
*2x Quad Harpoon launchers.
*2x Twin Stingray-II torpedo tubes.
*1x Testudo 20mm CIWS.
Systems 	
*Panopticon Tactical Support Uplink
*4x Testudo Radar Array
*Various redundant long range radar, sonar, and electro-optical systems, for acquiring sea and air based targets.
*Flare and decoy launchers, and other sundry ECM systems.
*Long range RF Jammer.
*Anti-Laser/Missile Smoke.
Aircraft Carried 	
*1x Dragonfly (Naval Attack Configuration)
Receiving only the minimum of upgrades to remain in line with the Federation’s armoury following their recovery, the Type 23s are far from the Federal Navy’s favourite ships. Aging and often unreliable, the Type 23s are at least better than nothing, but not much else, though it’s upgraded armament has allowed it to do the bare minimum that the EuF needs it to do in it’s overtaxed navy.
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