Borvazi Navy
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Past
Future
Command, control and organization
Equipment
Ships
Amphibious
Class | Image | Role | Number in Service | Displacement | Notes | ||
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Light Carrier | |||||||
Bogosi-class | Light carrier | 1 | 23,000 tons | License and design purchased from X in 1988, built and commissioned in Borvastaat in 1993, becoming the largest indigenously produced naval vessel in the country. Carries up to 18 jets and/or helicopters. | |||
Landing Platform Helicopter | |||||||
Kgaboeng-class | Amphibious assault ship | 1 | 21,500 tons | Commissioned in 1986, set to sold off or scrapped by 2026. |
Frigates
Class | Image | Role | Number in Service | Displacement | Notes | ||
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Destroyers | |||||||
Kgafela-class | Destroyer | 3 | 2,900 tons | Purchased in 1980 from X, delivered after the fall of the apartheid government in 1984 | |||
Frigates | |||||||
Tauh-class | Stealth guided-missile frigates | 5 | 3,700 tons | ||||
Modise-class | Frigates | 4 | 4,100 tons | Purchased from the Free States in the 1990s, refitted and recommissioned in 2015 as the Modise-class. |
Patrol vessels
Class | Image | Role | Number in Service | Displacement | Notes | ||
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Patrol | |||||||
Tlhabani-class | Multirole patrol vessel | 10+5 | 1,031 tons | 5 more under construction, to be complete in mid- to late-2025 as offshore patrol vessels. | |||
C-class | Inshore patrol vessel | 3 | 37 tons | ||||
Metsi-class | Harbor patrol vessel | 31 | 5 tons | ||||
Fast attack craft | |||||||
Tona-class | Fast attack craft | 8 | 415 tons | To be retired, sold and/or scrapped over the next 4 years. |
Submarines
Class | Image | Role | Number in Service | Displacement | Notes | ||
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Submarine | |||||||
Mogale-class | Diesel-electric attack submarine | 4 | 1,654 tons | Built by West Ruthen in the mid-2000s. | |||
Lerumo-class | Nuclear attack submarine | 1+1 | 7,900 tons | License built by the Free States, another is to be delivered in late 2025. | |||
Leruarua-class | Nuclear cruise missile submarine | 1 | 5,000 tons | Purchased from X in the mid-1990s. |