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Khareef-class corvette is a corvette. It was built by BAE Systems. Reported operators include Oman.
Khareef-class corvette
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BAE Systems
Oman
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Corvette
2,660 tonnes
99 m (325 ft)
14.6 m (48 ft)
4.1 m (13 ft)
Two MTU 4000 series diesel engines
28 kn (52 km/h; 32 mph)
4,500 nmi (8,300 km; 5,200 mi)
21 days
100
SMART-S Mk2 3D S-band multibeam radar TACTICOS combat management system Thales Nederland Sting electro-optic weapons director
1 × 76 mm OTO Melara gun 2 × 30mm MSI DS30M cannon 12 × VL MICA surface-to-air missiles 8 × MM-40 Block III Exocet surface-to-surface missiles
1 x medium helicopter
Enclosed hangar
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True scale
Sourced dimensions beside a 1.75 m human reference.
Khareef-class corvette equipment records. Variants, orders and quantities are shown as reported in each inventory source; coverage is incomplete.
OmanNavy exact named equipment holdings: Al-Shamikh. Active, operational-reserve and training units excluding equipment in store; November 2025 IISS assessment. Named service only; no parent-force or national total inferred. Source role: PRINCIPAL SURFACE COMBATANTS / FFGHM. Original estimates, ranges, reporting names, reserve, lease and employment scopes retained; nested included counts are not added. Missile-system quantities mean launchers, not rounds. No readiness, crew, carried weapon, payload, factory-production or future order count inherited.