KRI Nala (363) commander handover ceremony October 2022

KRI ''Nala'' (363) is an Indonesian Navy ship named after , a military commander of the Majapahit Empire. The ship is a missile-equipped

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, the third ship of .

Design

''Nala'' has a length of , a beam of , a draught of and displacement of standard and at full load. The ship has two shafts and powered with CODOG-type propulsion, which consisted of one Rolls-Royce Olympus TM-3B gas turbine with and two MTU 16V956 TB81 diesel engines with . The ship has a range of while cruising at and top speed of . ''Nala'' has a complement of 89 personnel, including 11 officers. The ship are armed with one

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, two Bofors 40 mm Automatic Gun L/70 and two

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autocannons. For anti-submarine warfare, the ship is equipped with one Bofors 375 mm twin anti-submarine rocket launcher. For surface warfare, ''Nala'' was equipped with four Exocet MM 38 anti-ship missile launchers. Due to obsolescence, the ship never carried the missiles since early 2000s. ''Nala'' also has a flight deck and telescopic hangar astern and able to carry a single helicopter, unlike other ships in the class. The ship's countermeasure systems consisted of two Vickers Mk 4

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launchers and T-Mk 6 torpedo decoy outfit. As built, the electronics and sensors consisted of HSA DA-05 air and surface surveillance radar, Decca AC 1229 surface warning radar, HSA WM-28 tracking radar, Van der Heem PHS 32 sonar and WCS WM20 fire-control system. As of 2009, some of them were replaced or upgraded, which were consisted of two Knebworth Corvus 8-tubed trainable chaff launchers, ECM MEL Susie-1 and Signaal LIROD fire-control system.

Service history

''Nala'' was laid down on 27 January 1978 at Wilton-Fijenoord,

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. The ship was launched on 11 January 1979 and was commissioned on 4 August 1980. The ''Nala'' was deployed to help look for the missing

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.Technical help awaited as plane search continues
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- NWC News - Obtained January 15, 2007.

References

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