Country: Spain
Class, [Type]: A. de Bazán, [FFG].
Builder: Izar, El Ferrol, Spain.
Launch date: 27 October 2000.
Commission date: 19 September 2002.

Displacement ( tons ): 5.802.
Dimensions ( metres ): 146,72 x 18,6 x 4,75
Main machinery: CODOG: 2 x GE LM-2500 gas turbines ( 46.648 hp ), 2 x Bazán-Caterpillar 3600 diesel ( 12.000 hp ).
Speed ( knots ): 28,5.
Range ( miles ): 5.000 at 18 knots.
Complement: 240 ( 35 officers ).

Guns: 1 x 127mm/54 Mk45 Mod. 2, 2 x 20mm/120.
Missiles:  SSM: 8 x McDonnell Douglas Harpoon. SAM: 32 x Standard SM-2 Block IV and 64 x RIM-7PTC Evolved Sea Sparrow, from 48 x Mk 41 VLS launchers.
Torpedoes: 4 x 324mm. Mk32 Mod 9 tubes. Honeywell Mk 46 mod 5.

Radar: Air Search: Lockheed Martin SPY-1D 3-D tracking, target designation and weapons control; Surface search: Raytheon SPS-67(V)4; Fire Control: AEGIS system, 2 x Raytheon SPG-62 target illuminators (Mk99 system); Fire Control: 1 x FABA DORNA ( RTN-30 radar for gun ) ; Navigation: Thales Scout.
Sonar: ENOSA-Raytheon DE 1160LF (I) hull-mounted.
Countermeasures: Decoys: 4 x FMC SRBOC Mk 36 decoy launchers; SLQ-25A Enhanced Nixie acoustic torpedo decoy; ECM/ESM: Indra SLQ-380 Aldebarán intercept/jammer suite; CESELSA Elnath Mk 9000 comms intercept. Laser detection and countermeasure syst.
Helicopter: 1 x SH60B Seahawk.

Callsign: EBDA (     )
Comment: On May 4th 2005 the ship joined the USS Theodore Roosevelt Battle Group, and conducted escort missions in the Persian Gulf between September and December of that year.
Homeport: El Ferrol.

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