Tunku Abdul Rahman KD (Submarine) 2009

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Tunku Abdul Rahman KD (Submarine) 2009

Post by Arturo » Thu Apr 16, 2015 7:58 pm

KD Tunku Abdul Rahman is a Scorpène-class submarine built for the Royal Malaysian Navy by DCNS in Cherbourg and Navantia company in Cartagena, Spain. The fore section was built at DCNS and joined to the aft section, which was built by Navantia. On 3 September 2009, Tunku Abdul Rahman arrived in Malaysia 54 days after sailing from Toulon for her new home.

She was named after Tunku Abdul Rahman Putra Al-Haj ibni Almarhum Sultan Abdul Hamid Halim Shah, (8 February 1903 – 6 December 1990) was Chief Minister of the Federation of Malaya from 1955, and the country's first Prime Minister from independence in 1957. He remained as the Prime Minister after Sabah, Sarawak, and Singapore joined the federation in 1963 to form Malaysia. He is widely known simply as "Tunku" or "The Tunku" (a princely title in Malaysia) and also called “Bapa Kemerdekaan” (Father of Independence) or “Bapa Malaysia” (Father of Malaysia).

She was ordered ; June 2002, laid down; December 2003, launched; October 2007, commissioned; January 2009, displacement; 1,577 long tons (1,602 t) surfaced, 1,711 long tons (1,738 t) submerged, length; 66.4 m (217 ft 10 in), beam; 6.2 m (20 ft 4 in), draft; 5.4 m (17 ft 9 in), propulsion; 2 × SEMT-Pielstick 12 PA4 200SM DS diesels 1 × Jeumont Industrie motor, 4,700 hp (3,505 kW), 1 shaft.

Her speed; 12 knots surfaced 20.5 kn submerged, range; 6,000 nmi at 8 kn surfaced 360 nmi at 4 kn submerged, test depth; more than 300 m (980 ft), complement; 32, sensors and processing systems; I-band navigation radar, hull mounted, active/passive search and attack, medium frequency sonars, electronic warfare and decoys; Thales DR 3000 tactical ESM receiver, armament; 6 x 533-mm torpedo tubes for 18 Whitehead Alenia Sistemi Subacquei Black Shark heavyweight torpedoes or SM.39 Exocet anti-ship missiles, 30 mines in place of torpedoes

The Scorpène-class submarines are a class of diesel-electric attack submarines jointly developed by the French DCN and the Spanish company Navantia and now by DCNS. It features diesel propulsion and an additional air-independent propulsion (AIP).

The French Module d'Energie Sous-Marine Autonome (MESMA) system is being offered by the French shipyard DCN for the Scorpène-class submarines. It is essentially a modified version of their nuclear propulsion system with heat being generated by ethanol and oxygen. A conventional turbine power plant powered by steam generated from the combustion of ethanol and stored oxygen at a pressure of 60 atmospheres. This pressure-firing allows exhaust carbon dioxide to be expelled overboard at any depth without an exhaust compressor.

Each MESMA system costs around $50–60 million. As installed on the Scorpène, it requires adding a new 8.3-m (27 ft), 305 tonne hull section to the submarine, and results in a submarine able to operate for greater than 21 days under water, depending on variables such as speed.

Malaysia issued a set of Three stamps to Commemorate the induction of the First Malaysian Submarine in Royal Malaysian Navy in Sep 2009. Kapal Diraja Tunku Abdul Rahman (KD TAR) is the first of the two Malaysian Scorpene Class Submarines. It also celebrates 75 Years of Malaysian Navy. Three stamps were issued on 03 Sep 2009. First stamp shows a graphic sketch of Submarine named after a reef Fish (Scorpene).

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Source: Wikipedia.
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