Private shipbuilding company Israel Shipyards Ltd. announced the signing of an agreement with the Israeli Ministry of Defense, involving the design of a promising small corvette. According to the plans, he should change the large missile boat of the Saar 4 project.

The Saar 72 project corvette, which Israel Shipyards Ltd is exporting, was chosen as the base for the new ship.. Reshef corvettes will be built at the Haifa-based Israel Shipyards: how many new ships the Israeli fleet will receive is not yet known.

According to preliminary data, the new corvette will have a standard displacement of about 800 tons. Its length will be 72 meters and a width of 10.25 meters. The ship will receive a twin-shaft power plant, which includes two diesel engines MTU 16V1163M94 V16 with a capacity of 5920 kW. Speed \u200b\u200bwill be approximately 30 knots. The crew of the ship will include 50 people with the possibility of placing additional groups, for example, special forces soldiers.

As the armament, the new ship will receive the Barak 8 air defense system, the IAI Gabriel 5 anti-ship missile launcher, the Leonardo Super Rapid 76 mm artillery mount, a pair of 30 mm remote-controlled artillery mounts and torpedo tubes. Accommodation on board UAV is possible.

According to the bmpd blog, today the Israeli Navy has eight missile boats of the Saar 4 project. 5: the first of these ships was commissioned back in 1981. In addition, the country has three Saar 5 corvettes. Now Saar 4 Corvettes. 5 and Saar 5 form the basis of the Israeli Navy surface forces.