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- Frigate
- Perry Class Frigate
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- Crew: 185
- Length: 445'
- Beam: 45'
- Range: 4,500 nmiles
- Speed: 29 kts
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- Intended to balance
- the expensive spe-
- cialized anti-submarine
- warfare and anti-air
- warfare ships, this
- frigate provides large
- numbers of escort with
- reduced capabilities.
- Its main function is
- to protect the carriers.
- Its weapons include
- standard SAMs, Har-
- poons, an OTO-Melara
- 76mm gun, phalanx CIWS
- and 2 torpedo tubes. It
- has a hangar aft for 2
- LAMPS helicopters.
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