KRI Fatahillah

KRI Fatahillah is an Indonesian Navy ship named after Fatahillah, a national war heroic figure who recaptured Sunda Kelapa from the Portuguese and consequently changed its name to Jayakarta. KRI Fatahillah is a missile-equipped corvette, the first ship of.

Design

Fatahillah has a length of, a beam of, a draught of and displacement of standard and at full load. The ship has two shafts and was powered with CODOG-type propulsion, which were consisted of one Rolls-Royce Olympus TM-3B gas turbine with and two MTU 16V956 TB81 diesel engines with. The ship has a top speed of. Fatahillah has a complement of 89 personnel, including 11 officers.

Mid-Life upgrade

Ultra Electronics was awarded a contract as the prime contractor for the mid-life upgrade of KRI Fatahillah in 2013 which includes replacement of the Combat Management System and sensors, re-powering and general overhaul, this USD50M contract is due to complete with ship handover back to the Navy in 2016. This upgrade included replacement of the WM-25 fire control radar with the installation of SCANTER 4100 and the installation of the Ultra Electronics Command and Control system. Tellumat Defence & Security also provided the PT-2500 naval IFF system to Ultra Electronics for the mid-life upgrade.
In December 2016, PT. Dok dan Perkapalan Surabaya hand over the completed ship to Indonesian Ministry of Defense at their yard in Surabaya.

Service history

Fatahillah was laid down on 31 January 1977 at Wilton-Fijenoord, Schiedam, Netherlands. The ship was launched on 22 December 1977 and was commissioned on 16 July 1979.
The ship was part of a team of several Indonesian and one US Navy vessels searching for the missing Adam Air Flight 574. It located several unidentified metal objects which may have been part of the missing plane.
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