KDTunku Abdul RahmanatPort Klang in September 2009 | |
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Malaysia | |
Name | KDTunku Abdul Rahman |
Namesake | Tunku Abdul Rahman |
Ordered | June 2002[1] |
Builder | Naval Group & Navantia |
Laid down | December 2003 |
Launched | October 2007[1] |
Commissioned | January 2009[1] |
Homeport | Sepanggar |
Status | Active |
General characteristics [2] | |
Class and type | Scorpène-class submarine |
Displacement | |
Length | 67.4 m (221 ft 2 in) |
Beam | 6.2 m (20 ft 4 in) |
Draft | 5.4 m (17 ft 9 in) |
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Test depth | More than 300 m (980 ft) |
Complement | 32 |
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Electronic warfare & decoys | Thales DR 3000 tactical ESM receiver |
Armament | 6 × 533 mm (21 in) torpedo tubes for 18 Whitehead Alenia Sistemi Subacquei Black Shark heavyweight torpedoes and SM-39 Exocet anti-ship missiles and 30 mines in place of torpedoes |
KDTunku Abdul Rahman is a Scorpène-class submarine built for the Royal Malaysian NavybyNaval Group, formerly known as DCNS in Cherbourg, France and NavantiainCartagena, Spain.
The fore section was built at Naval Group and joined to the aft section, which was built by Navantia.[3]
On 3 September 2009, Tunku Abdul Rahman arrived in Malaysia 54 days after sailing from Toulon for her new home.[4] According to a September 2009 report in Malaysia's English-language The Sun, the submarine was expected to be formally commissioned into the Royal Malaysian Navy in October 2009.[5]
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