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Name: | RSS Supreme |
Namesake: | Supreme |
Ordered: | March 2000 |
Builder: | ST Engineering (Marine) |
Launched: | 9 May 2006 |
Commissioned: | 16 January 2009 |
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Status: | Active |
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Class & type: | Formidable-class frigate |
Displacement: | 3,200 tonnes (3,100 long tons; 3,500 short tons) |
Length: | 114.8 m (376 ft 8 in) |
Beam: | 16.3 m (53 ft 6 in) |
Draught: | 6.0 m (19 ft 8 in) |
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Range: | 4,200 nautical miles (7,800 km) |
Complement: | 71, excluding air crew detachment of approx. 19 |
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Aircraft carried: | 1× S-70B Seahawk multi-mission capable naval helicopter |
Aviation facilities: | Flight deck and enclosed hangar for up to two medium-lift helicopters |
RSS Supreme (73) is the sixth ship of the Formidable-class stealth frigate of the Republic of Singapore Navy.
Construction and career[]
RSS Supreme was built by ST Marine Engineering company in Singapore around the late in the 2000s. Supreme was commissioned on 16 January 2009.[3]
RIMPAC 2010[]
RSS Supreme participated RIMPAC 2010 from 23 June to 1 August 2010. RSS Supreme fires off her Aster 15 Surface-to-Air Missile (SAM) off the coast of Hawaii. Chief of Navy Rear-Admiral Chew Men Leong was on board to observe the live-firing exercises.[citation needed]
PASSEX 2016[]
Republic of Singapore Navy and Royal Australian Navy conducted a passage exercise which consists of RSS Supreme, HMAS Darwin and HMAS Adelaide. One of HMAS Adelaides’ MRH-90 helicopter lands on Supreme’s deck.[4]
RSS Supreme and USNS Carl Brasher conducted a replenish at sea on 26 June 2020.[5]
RIMPAC 2020[]
RSS Supreme joined HMAS Stuart, HMAS Sirius, USS Rafael Peralta and KDB Darulehsan on their way to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii in preparation for RIMPAC 2020 on 6 August. RIMPAC 2020 will scheduled to start on 17 August.[6]
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References[]
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Category:RSS Supreme (73). |
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- ↑ "MTU Series 8000". MTU-online-shop. http://www.mtu-online-shop.de/fileadmin/dam/download_media/import_print/M_05172E_0702.pdf. Retrieved 22 April 2010.
- ↑ "RSS Supreme 73". https://www.helis.com/database/unit/1225-RSS-Supreme.
- ↑ Navy, Royal Australian. "Sailing in-sync with Singapore". https://news.navy.gov.au/en/Nov2017/Fleet/4190/Sailing-in-sync-with-Singapore.htm.
- ↑ "Singapore Navy and US Navy have conducted sea operations in South China Sea". https://www.navyrecognition.com/index.php/news/defence-news/2020/june/8657-singapore-navy-and-us-navy-have-conducted-sea-operations-in-south-china-sea.html.
- ↑ Milne, Sandy (2020-08-05). "RAN commences exercises with warships from Singapore, Brunei". https://www.defenceconnect.com.au/maritime-antisub/6581-ran-commences-exercises-with-warships-from-singapore-brunei.
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