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BRP Davao del Sur (LD-602)
Career (Philippines)
Name: BRP Davao del Sur
Namesake: Province of Davao del Sur
Awarded: 29 August 2013
Builder: PT PAL (Persero) Indonesia
Launched: 29 September 2016
Commissioned: 31 May 2017
Motto: Nos Inveniam Viam (We Shall Find a Way)
Status: commission
Badge:
General characteristics
Class & type: Tarlac-class landing platform dock
Displacement:
  • Standard: 7,200 tons
  • Full load: 11,583 tons
Length: 123 m (404 ft)
Beam: 21.8 m (72 ft)
Draft: 5 m (16 ft)
Installed power: 1 x MAN D 2842 LE301 diesel generator
Propulsion:
  • Combined diesel and diesel (CODAD) arrangement:
  • 2 × MAN-STX 8L27/38 diesel engines, each producing 3,915 bhp (2,920 kW)
  • Total diesel engine output: 7,830 bhp (5,840 kW)
Speed: 16 knots (30 km/h) maximum
Range: 9,360 nautical miles (17,300 km)
Endurance: 30 Days
Boats & landing
craft carried:
  • 2 × LCU or LCM at floodable well docks
  • 2 × RHIB or LCVP at boat davits
Capacity: 500 troops and associated vehicles & equipment
Complement: 121
Sensors and
processing systems:
  • Furuno X & S-band navigation radars
  • Surface & Air search radar (planned)
  • Electro-Optical Fire Control System (planned)
Electronic warfare
& decoys:
  • Electronic Warfare Suite (planned)
  • Armament:
  • 1 × 76mm main gun on the foredeck (planned)
  • 2 × 25mm secondary guns one each on the port and starboard sides (planned)
  • Unspecified number of 50-caliber Machine guns
  • Aircraft carried: 2 x 10-ton naval helicopters
    Aviation facilities: Hangar and flight deck for 2 medium helicopters

    BRP Davao del Sur (LD-602) is the second and last ship of her class of the Philippine Navy's landing platform docks.[1] She is the second ship to be named after the Philippine province of Davao del Sur, one of the main provinces in Mindanao in Southern Philippines.

    She was launched on 29 September 2016[2] and she was commissioned into Philippine Navy service on 31 May 2017.[3]

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