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The Exocet MM38 is a French ship-launched inertial cruise, anti-ship, active radar homing missile with a range of 42 km and a flight speed of 0.9 Mach. It carries a 165 kg warhead.
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The Rolling Airframe Missile (RAM) is a joint American and German all-weather, ship self-defence system designed to combat anti-ship missiles. It provides a lightweight, quick reaction, high firepower and low cost ship-defence capability.
The RAM Block 0 missile uses a wide field of view, radio frequency midcourse and a narrow field of view, infrared terminal guidance. Immediately after launch the RF seeker detects the target, guides the missile and points the IR seeker in the target' s direction, initiating the RF midcourse guidance. With the use of accurate IR terminal guidance, provided by the highly precise IR seeker and proportional navigation, the missile achieves a direct hit or an approach in the direct vicinity of the target. The wide RF field of view provides RAM with a 'shoot around the corner' capability for targets in the shadow of the ship's superstructure. Since RAM uses a passive guidance mode, it does not need any additional shipboard support after launch.
The ship sensors provide target data via the External Designation System (EDS) to the RAM GMWS. After target designation from the EDS, the launcher is directed to the firing position and the missiles are prepared and fired against the incoming targets with the priority provided by the EDS. Since its initial operational capability in 1993, RAM Block 0 has had successful intercepts in 113 of 117 production proofing and ship qualification test flights in both the United States and German Navies. The proliferation of passive ASCMs lead to the necessity to upgrade the RAM system.
The RAM Block I Infrared Mode Upgrade (IRMU) gives RAM the capability to engage RF-passive ASCMs by means of a jointly developed IR seeker and IR image acquisition technique. Block I development testing was successfully initiated aboard the USS Gunston Hall with two successful firings each of Block I and Block 0 missiles. Block I development testing continued aboard the unmanned, remotely controlled Self-Defence Test Ship (SDTS). The RAM Block I missile successfully intercepted an Exocet MM38, supersonic VANDAL and other Navy targets.
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The Abdul Rahman Al Fadel is a Bahrainian Lurssen FPB 45 type missile corvette of 259 tons (fully loaded) and a top speed of 40 knots. She is armed with two Aerospatiale Exocet MM38 ship-to-ship missile launchers and one OTO Melara 76 mm/62 gun, two Breda 40 mm/70 (twin) guns and three 7.62 mm machine-guns.
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The Ahmad El Fateh is a Bahrainian Lurssen FPB 45 type missile corvette of 259 tons (fully loaded) and a top speed of 40 knots. She is armed with two Aerospatiale Exocet MM38 ship-to-ship missile launchers and one OTO Melara 76 mm/62 gun, two Breda 40 mm/70 (twin) guns and three 7.62 mm machine-guns.
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The Albatros is a German Albatros class fast attack missile craft of 398 tons displacement commissioned in 1976. She is powered by four MTU 16V956 TB91 diesels providing a top speed of 40 knots and a range of 1300 miles at 30 knots. She carries a crew of 40 including four officers. Armaments consist of two twin Aerospatiale Exocet MM38 anti-ship missile launchers; two OTO Melara 76 mm/62 compact dual-purpose guns; two 533 mm aft torpedo tubes taking the AEG Seeal wire-guided; active homing torpedo.
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The Alimarante Riveros is a British built Chilean Alimarante Class destroyer of 2730 tons displacement built by Vickers-Armstrong Ltd and launched in 1958. She is powered by two Parsons Pametrada geared turbines providing a top speed of 34.5 knots and a range of 6000 miles at 16 knots. She carries four Aerospatiale Exocet MM38 surface-to-surface missiles; two Short Bros Seacat quad launchers and is armed with four Vickers 4 inch/60 Mk(N)R guns; four Bofors 40 mm/70 anti-aircraft guns; two Admiralty Squid DC 3-barrelled anti-ship mortars and six 324 mm Mk 32 (arrange in two triple arrangements) torpedo tubes taking the Honeywell Mk 44 Mod 1 torpedo She was modernised by Swan Hunter in co-operation with Plessey during 1973 to 1975 and in the late 1980s was given a further extensive refit with the addition of modern electronic equipment.
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The Alimarante Williams is a British built Chilean Alimarante Class destroyer of 2730 tons displacement built by Vickers-Armstrong Ltd and launched in 1958. She is powered by two Parsons Pametrada geared turbines providing a top speed of 34.5 knots and a range of 6000 miles at 16 knots. She carries four Aerospatiale Exocet MM38 surface-to-surface missiles; two Short Bros Seacat quad launchers and is armed with four Vickers 4 inch/60 Mk(N)R guns; four Bofors 40 mm/70 anti-aircraft guns; two Admiralty Squid DC 3-barrelled anti-ship mortars and six 324 mm Mk 32 (arrange in two triple arrangements) torpedo tubes taking the Honeywell Mk 44 Mod 1 torpedo She was modernised by Swan Hunter in co-operation with Plessey during 1971 to 1974 and in the late 1980s was given a further extensive refit with the addition of modern electronic equipment.
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The Alk is a German Tiger Class fast attack missile craft of 265 tons displacement commissioned in 1975. She is powered by four MTU MD 872 16-cylinder diesels providing a top speed of 36 knots and a range of 570 miles at 30 knots and 1600 miles at 15 knots. She carries a crew of 30 including four officers. Armaments consist of two twin Aerospatiale Exocet MM38 anti-ship missile launchers; one OTO Melara 76 mm/62 compact dual-purpose gun; one Bofors 40 mm/70 anti-aircraft gun; mine laying capability.
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The Al Jabiri is a Bahrainian Lurssen FPB 45 type missile corvette of 259 tons (fully loaded) and a top speed of 40 knots. She is armed with two Aerospatiale Exocet MM38 ship-to-ship missile launchers and one OTO Melara 76 mm/62 gun, two Breda 40 mm/70 (twin) guns and three 7.62 mm machine-guns.
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The Al Manama is a Bahrainian Lurssen FPB 62 type missile corvette of 632 tons and a top speed of 32 knots. She is armed with two Aerospatiale Exocet MM38 ship-to-ship missile launchers and one OTO Melara 76 mm/62 gun, two Breda 40 mm/70 (twin) guns and two Oerlikon GAM-BO1 20 mm/93 guns. She also carries a single SA 365F Dauphin 2 helicopter. The Al Manama is of an aluminium superstructure with a steel hull and is fitted with a helicopter platform which incorporates a lift to lower the aircraft into the hangar.
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