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KRI Fatahillah

 
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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

  1. ^ a b More Adam Air plane wreckage discovered - Daily Telegraph

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