Wednesday, November 06, 2013
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The Philippine government spent more than P600 million to acquire BRP Alcaraz under the US defense excess article program.
  • Acquired: May 2012
  • Commissioned: November 2013 
  • Type: Frigate
  • Displacement: 3,250 tons
  • Length: 115 m
  • Beam: 13 m
  • Draft: 4.6 m
  • Propulsion: Two diesel engines and two gas turbine engines
  • Speed: 29 knots (54 km/ h)
  • Range: 14,000 mi (22,531 km)
  • Endurance: 45 days
  • Complement: - 88
  • Processing systems: AN/SPS-40 air-search radar
  • Armament: One OTO Melara MK-75 76 mm gun
    2 × Loral Hycor Mk.36 6-barrelled Super Rapid Blooming Offboard Chaff (SRBOC) decoy launchers M2HB .50cal machine guns and M240 7.62mm Machine guns.
    two 25-mm MKE 201 HEI-T machineguns.
Plan Upgrades
  • Mk 38 Mod 2 25mm stabilized remote-controlled gun systems
  • ASW capability
  • harpoon surface-to-surface missiles

Sources:

1. http://www.naval-technology.com/news/newsbrp-ramon-alcaraz-to-feature-asw-capability
2. http://globalnation.inquirer.net/82461/warship-monching-is-here-ph-to-intensify-sea-patrols

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