The Ambassador MK3 is a heavy, stealth attack boat owned by the Egyptian Navy with 4 pieces. It is considered the best of its kind in the world and has electronic and armament equipment that makes it close to arming frigates. It was designed and built with special specifications for the Egyptian Navy by the American Halter Marine.
This boat was manufactured specifically for Egypt, and the contract value amounted to 1290 million dollars for the four pieces, while the price of the fourth piece alone amounted to about 325 million dollars.
GENERAL SPECIFICATIONS
Displacement: 550 tons
Length: 60.6 meters
Width: 10 meters
Draft: 2 meters
Range: 3700 km
– Duration of stay at sea: 8 days
Maximum speed: 76 km / h
Crew: 8 officers + 10 non-commissioned officers + 18 sailors
Propulsion: 3 German diesel engines of the MTU-8000 class, rated at 30,000 horsepower.
electronic equipment
1- IBS Integrated Bridge System from the Sperry Marine Division of Northrop Grumman of America, which is a set of integrated computers responsible for integrating all data and information received from radars, sensor systems, battle management systems, fire control and all ship navigation systems and providing the ability of central entry Or control or issue commands from any computer connected to the system with the advantage of displaying all data and information related to the current mission without occupying the display screens with any other data that is not important or not related to the existing mission and thus provides complete facilitation for navigation, follow-up, control, command and giving orders from any computer system in the ship by a qualified person.
2- An integrated battle management system from the American company Lockheed Martin.
3- External and embedded communication systems from the American company.
4- Multichannel Tactical Data Links Link ASN 150 / LinkYE / Link 14 / Link 11 Data Links
GPS Navigation / Receiver / Datalink satellite navigation systems.
5- The German three-dimensional radar TRS-3D, which works in the ESA pattern with an active electronic scanning array and is equipped with electronic anti-jamming systems. In flight mode adjacent to the sea surface at an altitude of 3-4 meters, even in the presence of strong sea waves and bad weather conditions, in addition to the IFF enemy and friend identification system. The detector has a range of 200 km, and it works as a naval and air detection radar, as well as a fire control radar as well.
6- The Scout radar, provided by the Dutch company Thales, which is a detection and monitoring radar characterized by silent monitoring, meaning that it can never be detected by early warning devices, as it consumes only 1 watt of energy and can track 40 targets at one time, with a range of 50 km.
Note: When the radar is turned on at its maximum power to increase its range, the process of detecting it by hostile radars becomes very easy because of the high energy emitted from it.
7- An American L-3 Communications Brashear fire control radar, equipped with an electronic anti-jamming system, an electro-optical sensor, a passive thermal system to detect and identify targets with a range of 25 km, and a laser rangefinder with a range of 10 km.
8- An electronic warfare, support and electronic jamming system of the type WBR-2000 from the American company Argon ST, specialized in detection, search, interception of signals and early warning, and provides 360-degree coverage of the ship.
9- Four Mk 32 chaff/IR radar-guided decoys (foils and heat burners).
10- Electroacoustic spoofing noise defense system to mislead AN/SLQ-25 Nixie Torpedo Decoy
armament
1- The Otobreda 76 super rapid 76-mm cannon, which can fire 120 rounds per minute, up to a distance of 30 km, with the possibility of using DART guided anti-ship cruise missiles.
2-8 Harpoon Block II surface-to-surface missiles are launched through two quadruple launchers, each containing 4 missiles with a range of 140 km.
3- RAM Block 2 rotating, thermally oriented missile cell with passive radar, designated for air defense and against anti-ship missiles or approaching aircraft, with 21 missiles, with a range of up to 9 km, and a speed of Mach 2.
4- The Phalanx CIWS six-pipe artillery air defense system is designed to deal with any missiles or hostiles approaching the corvette at a rate of 4,500 rounds per minute, with an effective range of up to 3.5 kilometers, and is equipped with advanced radar and an electro-optical monitoring system, manufactured by the American Raytheon Company.
5- Two 7.6 mm M-60 multi-tasking machine guns mounted on the roof of the corvette, with a range of 1.1 km, and a firing rate of 500: 650 rounds per minute.