KDB Daruttaqwa

KDB Daruttaqwa (09) is the fourth and final ship of the Darussalam-class offshore patrol vessels in the Sultanate of Brunei Darussalam. The vessel is in active service in the Royal Brunei Navy (RBN).

KDB Daruttaqwa underway during CARAT 2020
History
Brunei Darussalam
Name	Daruttaqwa (Abode of Forbearance)
Namesake	Daruttaqwa
Operator	Royal Brunei Navy
Ordered	12 July 2012
Builder	Lürssen Werft
Commissioned	8 September 2014; 10 years ago (2014-09-08)[1]
Homeport	Muara Naval Base
Identification	MMSI number: 915080003 call sign: V8DL pennant number: 09
Status	active
General characteristics
Class & type	Darussalam-class offshore patrol vessel
Displacement	1,625 tonnes (1,599 long tons; 1,791 short tons)
Length	80 m (262 ft 6 in)
Beam	13 m (42 ft 8 in)
Propulsion	2 × MTU 12V diesel engines, 11,400 hp (8,500 kW)
Speed	22 knots (41 km/h; 25 mph) maximum
Range	7,500 nmi (13,900 km; 8,600 mi)
Endurance	21 days
Boats & landing craft carried	2 x Boomeranger boats 1x Boomeranger Patrol Craft (1 x 7.62mm gun)
Complement	55+
Sensors & processing systems	Search radar: Terma Scanter 4100 Navigation radar: 2 × Furuno navigation radars EOTS: (atop mast, front of search radar) Fire control radar: Thales Sting EO MK2 (only on her sisterships)
Electronic warfare & decoys	ESM: EDO ITT 3601 Decoy: Terma DL-6T Decoy Launching system
Armament	1 × Mauser BK-27 RWS 27mm maingun 2 × Oerlikon 20mm/85 KAA secondary guns 4 × Exocet MM40 Block 3 (only on her sisterships)
Aircraft carried	1 × helicopter
Aviation facilities	Helicopter landing platform

Offshore patrol vessel programme

Brunei Darussalam ordered the Darussalam-class offshore patrol vessels from Lürssen Werft, the same company that Brunei contracted to sell the contract-disputed Nakhoda Ragam-class corvettes. The first two vessels were delivered in January 2011. The final ship of the second batch of two ships were delivered by 2014.

Construction and career

Daruttaqwa was built by Lürssen Werft company in Germany around the late 2000s. She is part of the second batch of two ships delivered from Germany to Brunei Darussalam. Daruttaqwa commissioned on 8 September 2014; 10 years ago (2014-09-08), at Muara Naval Base.^[1] All four sister ships work in the offshore patrol vessel role.

MNEK 2016

16 April 2016, Daruttaqwa was sent to Padang, Indonesia for Maritime Naval Exercise Komodo 2016, which is hosted by the Indonesian Navy from 12 to 16 April 2016.^[2]

LIMA’19

Daruttaqwa was sent on a Maritime Exercise in Langkawi, Malaysia for "Langkawi International Maritime & Aerospace Exhibition 2019" (LIMA’19) which will last from 19–22 March 2019. She returned to Muara Naval Base on 5 April 2019.^[3]

PLAN 70th Anniversary

On April 12, 2019, KDB Daruttaqwa left Muara Port for Qingdao, China to celebrate the 70th Anniversary of People's Liberation Army Navy.^[4] Daruttaqwa later on joined "ADMM-Plus 2019".

ADMM-Plus 2019

Daruttaqwa, HMAS Success, Xiangtan, INS Kolkata, INS Shakti, KRI Halasan, KRI Tombak, JS Murasame, JS Izumo, KD Lekiu, BRP Andrés Bonifacio, RSS Stalwart, MV Avatar, ROKS Cheonjabong, ROKS Jeonbuk, ROKS Wang Geon, HTMS Bhumibol Adulyadej, USS William P. Lawrence and VPNS Quang Trung conducted "ADMM-PLUS 2019" off Busan, South Korea. The ships have to conduct an exercise where they need to retake hostile vessels and rescue people overboard at sea.

All ships returned to Singapore to conduct check aboard cargo ships. Daruttaqwa returned to Muara Naval Base on 20 May 2019.^[5]

Gallery

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  KDB Daruttaqwa and JS Kashima on 8 June 2021
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