![]() ARC Almirante Padilla
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Class overview | |
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Name | Almirante Padilla class |
Builders | Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft (HDW) |
Operators | ![]() |
Built | 1981–1983 |
In commission | 1983–present |
Planned | 4 |
Completed | 4 |
Active | 4 |
General characteristics | |
Type | Frigate |
Displacement | 2,100 t (2,100 long tons; 2,300 short tons) full load |
Length | 99.1 m (325 ft 2 in) |
Beam | 11.3 m (37 ft 1 in) |
Draft | 3.7 m (12 ft 2 in) |
Propulsion | 2 shaft, 4 MTU 20V 1163 TB92 diesel engines 23,400 hp (17,400 kW) |
Speed | 27 knots (50 km/h; 31 mph) |
Range | 7,000 nmi (13,000 km; 8,100 mi) at 14 knots (26 km/h; 16 mph) |
Complement | 92 |
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The Almirante Padilla-class frigates is a series of frigates operated by the Colombian Navy. The designation of this class is Type FS 1500 and there are four ships in service. The ships were built by Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft (HDW) at Kiel, West Germany in the 1980s, with the first vessel commissioning in 1983 and the last in 1984. The frigates have undergone significant modification over their careers with the 2012 Orion Program Upgrade significantly modernising the vessels. Two similar ships operate as the Kasturi-class corvettes in the Royal Malaysian Navy.