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HNoMS Thor Heyerdahl is a Fridtjof Nansen-class frigate of the Royal Norwegian Navy.
Exercising with HMS Lancaster in March 2021 | |
History | |
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Norway | |
Name | Thor Heyerdahl |
Namesake | Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl |
Ordered | 23 June 2000 |
Builder | Navantia, Ferrol |
Laid down | 23 November 2007 |
Launched | 11 February 2009 |
Commissioned | 18 February 2011 |
Identification |
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Status | Active |
Badge | |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Fridtjof Nansen-class frigate |
Displacement | 5,290 tons |
Length | 134 m (439.63 ft) |
Beam | 16.8 m (55.12 ft) |
Draft | 7.6 m (24.93 ft) |
Propulsion |
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Speed | 27 knots (50.00 km/h) |
Range | 4,500 nautical miles (8,334.00 km) |
Complement |
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Electronic warfare & decoys | Terma DL-12T decoy launcher, Loki torpedo countermeasure |
Armament |
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Aircraft carried | 1 × NH90 helicopter |
Built by the Spanish shipbuilders Navantia, in Ferrol, Thor Heyerdahl was the fifth and last of the Fridtjof Nansen class to be launched and then commissioned into the Royal Norwegian Navy.[1] Unlike the other members of her class, she was built with two 8-cell VLS modules instead of one.
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