Learn the most modern warship of Brunei

Brunei Navy currently owns three British-made Nakhoda Ragam-class corvettes with advanced electronic systems and weapons.

Brunei has a small but relatively modern naval force, meeting the task of searching and rescuing at sea and protecting oil wells at sea.

Since 1995, Brunei has purchased Nakhoda Ragam class escort (one of the variants of the F2000 class) built by BAE System. This is the largest and most modern type of warship the country has had since the royal navy was born in 1965.

Patrol ship of the Nakhoda Ragam class of the Royal Navy of Brunei.

The ship has a water displacement of 1940 tons, a length of 95 m. The number of crew is 79 people, when necessary, can be adjusted to provide more room for 24 people.

Advanced electronic system

The ship is equipped with weapons control system and commander Nautis II. Nautis II can operate in training mode that provides a hypothetical situation to train sailors.

Arms control system and commander Nautis II.

The ship also has the Ramadec 2500 photovoltaic weapon control device, including telemetry lasers, TVs and thermal imaging cameras for monitoring and controlling firecrackers.

The radar system on board includes: BAE System Insyte AWS - 9 3D aerial search and operation on the I / J frequency range; BAE Insyte 1802SW targets operation on the I / J band to illuminate targets for non-Seawolf marine naval missiles; The Kelvin Hughes Type 1007 positioning and radar search in Thales Nederland Scout.

Finally, the ship installed Thales TMS 4130C1 underwater ultrasound navigation system.

Heavy weapons

The ship is equipped with the Oto Melara 76mm super-fast cannon used to combat low-altitude aircraft or small sized sea vessels. The cannon has a range of 16 km and a fire rate of 110 rounds / minute. Nakhoda Ragam also has two 30mm anti-aircraft guns with a firing rate of 650 rounds per minute, a range of 10 km.

The ship uses MBDA Exocet MM - 40 block II anti-ship missile combination, the missile is guided inertia and active radar. MM - 40 Exocet has a range of about 70 km, subsonic cruise speed (Mach 0.9).

Exocet MM - 40 anti-ship missile complex has a range of 70km.

MBDA Seawolf anti-air missile system is used to fight aircraft and cruise missiles. Seawolf uses automatic navigation system to control line of sight with radio signals and tracking radar.

The solid-fuel engine missile, which has a range of 6 km and a flying ceiling of 3,000 m, Mach 2.5 supersonic speed, is housed in 16 vertical launchers between the command post and the 76mm turret.

Seawolf air-to-air missiles with a range of 6 km are placed in vertical launchers.

The ship is also equipped with anti-underground torpedo tubes of 324mm size.

The electronic response system on board includes: Thales Sensor Cutlass 242 electronic counter-attack system, Scorpion jamming radar and Super Barricade launcher.

At the stern is a space of 285 square meters used as a landing area for a S-70B Seahawk medium helicopter. However, there were no helicopter holds on the train.

The main driving force of Nakhoda Ragam is four MAN 20 RK270 diesel engines that allow ships to reach a maximum speed of 30 knots. If running at an average speed of 12 knots, the range could reach about 9,000km.

Signed the contract since 1995, in January 2001 the first aircraft of Nakhoda Ragam class was launched, followed by the second and third ones in June 2001 and June 2002 respectively.

All three ships were transferred to the Royal Brunei Navy as KDB Nakhoda Ragam, KDB Bendhara Sakam and KDB Jerambak.