| Career (Indonesia) | |
|---|---|
| Name: | KRI Fatahillah |
| Builder: | Netherlands |
| Launched: | 1980 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Fatahillah class corvette |
| Displacement: | 1450 tons |
| Length: | 84 metres (280 ft) |
| Speed: | 30 knots (56 km/h) |
| Range: | 3,300 kilometres (1,780 nmi) |
| Complement: | 89 |
| Armament: | 4 x Exocet SSM 1 x Bofors 120-millimetre (4.7 in) Gun Man-Portable SAM 1 x Bofors 40-millimetre (1.6 in) AA Gun 1 x Limbo anti-submarine mortars Mark 46 Torpedos |
KRI Fatahillah is an Indonesian Navy ship[1] named after Fatahillah, a national war heroic figure who successfully captured back Sunda Kelapa from the hands of the Portuguese and consequently changed its name to Jayakarta. The ship is a missile-equipped destroyer type, the first ship of Fatahillah class.
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Notable deployments
The ship is part of a team several Indonesian and one US Navy vessels searching for the missing Adam Air flight 574. It has located several unidentified metal objects which may be part of the missing plane.[1]
References
- ^ a b More Adam Air plane wreckage discovered - Daily Telegraph
External links
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