Updated St. Joseph Class guided missile corvette:
Length:
90 m
Beam:
13.5 m
Draft:
3.6 m
Displacement (max):
1,900 t
Speed:
27 kts
Range:
3,600 nm @ 14 kts
Complement:
70
Propulsion:
2x Wärtsilä 16V26 diesel engines
Sensors:
IAI Elta ELM-2248 MF-STAR 3D AESA search radar
Thales Scout LPI surface search/navigation radar
Furuno navigation radar
Thales Kingklip hull-mounted sonar
Rafael DAFCO EO gun fire control system
Rafael C-PEARL-DV ESM
Rafael SEWS-DV EW system
Tellumat IFF system
Communication systems:
SATCOM
UHF antennas
Link 16 antenna
Armament:
1x Oto Melara 76 mm Super Rapid gun
32x IAI Barak 8 surface to air missiles
8x Boeing Harpoon Block II anti-ship missiles
4x Eurotorp A244-S Mod3 torpedoes
1x Rheinmetall Defense Millennium 35 mm CIWS
4x M2HB machine guns
Decoys:
Mk. 36 SRBOC
Boats:
2x RHIB
Aviation:
1x AgustaWestland SuperLynx 300 ASW helicopter
The St. Joseph Class corvette was conceptualized in the early 2000's by the CCMDF. The CCMDF wanted to expand its scope of operations from the coastal missions it preformed during the Cold War. The St. Joseph Class corvettes were designed to have AAW as its primary mission, with secondary ASW and ASuW capability. The St. Joseph Class was one of the first class of ships to receive the IAI Elta ELM-2248 MF-STAR AESA radar and Barak 8 missile system, along with the Indian Kolkata Class destroyer and Israeli Sa'ar 5 Class corvette. The St. Joseph Class was authorized in 2008, with construction on the first ship, the CCDS St. Joseph, beginning in 2009. CCDS St. Joseph was commisioned in 2012, and was sent for its first deployment to Somalia in late 2013. The second ship, CCDS St. Mary, was laid down in 2010 and commisioned in 2013. The third and fourth ships CCDS St. Paul and CCDS St. Andrew were both laid down in 2011 and commissioned in late 2014 and early 2015 respectively.