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Ardent Class Frigate (Kuat Shipyards)

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Ardent class
Class overview
Name: Ardent Class
Builders: Kuat Shipyards
Operators: NRI Republic Navy
Preceded by: Hemolia-class frigate
Cost: $900 Million NSD per ship
In service: 2013-Present
General characteristics
Type: Guided Missile Frigate
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5,800 long tons (5,900 t) (standard load)
6,391 long tons (6,494 t) (full load)
Length: 146.7 m (481 ft 4 in)
Beam: 18.6 m (61 ft 0 in)
Draught: 4.75 m (15 ft 7 in)
Propulsion: 2 × Nuclear Reactor
Speed: 28 kn
Range: Unlimited (theoretical)
Troops: 10 Marines
Complement: 201
Sensors and
processing systems:
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(AN/SPY-1D) 3D multifunction radar
(SPS-67(V)4) surface search radar
(DE1160) LF active and passive sonar
2 × (ARIES) navigation/surface radar
2 × (SPG-62 Mk99) radar illuminator
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Guns:
1 × 5-inch (127 mm)
2 x 25mm Testudo
2 × Mark 41 (VLS) (64-cell)
2 × 25 mm autocannon
32 × (Standard SM-2MR Block IIIA)
64 × (RIM-162 Evolved Sea Sparrow Missile (4 per cell))
8 × anti-ship missile
2 × twin 12.75 in (323.8 mm) (Mark 32 Mod 9) torpedo tubes with 12 (Mark 46 Mod 5) torpedoes
Armor: steel shrapnel sheets, Kevlar spall liners
Aircraft carried: 1 x CH-9 helicopters

The Ardent class is a class of Scutum combat system-equipped multi-purpose frigates in service with the Republic Navy. The vessels were built by Roman shipbuilder Kuat Shipyards.

The ships are fitted with the Scutum weapons system allowing them to track hundreds of airborne targets simultaneously as part of its integrated air defense network. The Ardent-class multi-role frigates are the only frigate in service with the Roman Republic Navy's Foreign Interest Defense Command