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Bay-class patrol boatlarger figure on 0 of 2
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Length
Single source38.2 m (125 ft 4 in)[source]
Length
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| Specification | Bay-class patrol boat | Gowind-class design |
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| Name | Bay class[source] | Gowind class[source] |
| Builders | Austal[source] | Naval Group Boustead Heavy Industries Corporation / Lumut Naval Shipyard Alexandria Shipyard[source] |
| Operators | Australian Border Force Marine Unit Sri Lanka Navy Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency[source] | Egyptian Navy Argentine Navy United Arab Emirates Navy Future operators Royal Malaysian Navy[source] |
| In service | 1999–present[source] |
Gowind-class designlarger figure on 2 of 2
Counts only measures both sources give with the same scope. A larger figure is not a better system.
85 m (278 ft 10 in) - 111 m (364 ft 2 in)[source]
Bars compare reported quantities only. A larger figure does not make a system better; configurations and test conditions differ.
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| Completed |
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| Active | 12 (4 Egyptian Navy, 4 Argentine Navy, 2 UAE Navy)[source] |
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| Retired | — |
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| Type | Patrol boat[source] | Frigate , Corvette , Offshore patrol vessel[source] |
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| Propulsion | 2 × MTU 16V 2000 M70 diesel engines 1 VosperThornycroft bow thruster[source] | CODAD[source] |
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| Boats & landing craft carried | 2 × Wiltrading Pursuit 640 vessels (USLC-2C Survey)[source] | — |
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| Sensors & processing systems | Radar: Surface search: Racal Decca; E/F and I bands Sonar: Wesmar SS 390E dipping sonar[source] | SMART-S MK2 3D radar CAPTAS-2 variable depth sonar SETIS combat system by Naval Group[source] |
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| Armament | 1 × 7.62 mm general purpose machine gun[source] | 1 × OTO Melara 76 mm or Bofors 57 mm Naval Automatic Gun L/70 2 × KNDS Narwhal 20 mm or MSI DS30M 30 mm cannon 8 - 16 × VLS for VL MICA 4 - 8 × Exocet or Naval Strike Missile anti ship missile 2 × triple torpedo launcher[source] |
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| Country of origin | Australia[source]Bay-class patrol boat · origin explicitly stated in the linked current national-inventory row; no inference from operator or shipyard | — |
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| Subclasses | — | Kership[source] |
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| Cost | — | Gowind 1000: € 80 million (2014) (equivalent to € 96.8 million in 2025) per unit Gowind 2500: € 550 million (2026) per unit Gowind 3100: RM 1.5 billion (2011) per unit + ToT (ceiling)[source] |
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| In commission | — | 22 September 2017 – present[source] |
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| Planned | — | 20[source] |
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| Building | — |
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| Canceled | — | 5 (1 Royal Malaysian Navy, 4 Romanian Navy)[source] |
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| Endurance | — | 21 days[source] |
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| Electronic warfare & decoys | — | VIGILE 200 Tactical R-ESM System ALTESSE Naval C-ESM[source] |
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| Aircraft carried | — | 1 × 5-tons helicopter or 1 × 10-tons helicopter (supported) Schiebel Camcopter S-100[source] |
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| Aviation facilities | — | Stern hangar Helicopter landing platform[source] |
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