Specifications

• Displacement: 2,900 tons (empty); 3,360 tons (full load)
  
• Length: 413 ft (125.9 m)
  
• Beam: 49 ft(15 m)
  
• Draught: 19 ft(5.8 m)
  
• Propulsion:
  • 2 shafts
    
  • 2 Rolls-Royce Tyne RM-1C cruise gas turbines, 10,200 shp (7,600 kW) tot.
    
  • 2 Rolls-Royce Olympus TM-3B boost gas turbines, 25,800 shp (19,200 kW) tot.
    
  • Max shaft horsepower: 51,600 shp (38,500 kW) max
    
  
  
• Speed: 30.5 knots (56.5 km/h)
  
• Range: 4,500 nautical miles (8,330 km) at 18 knots (33 km/h)
  
• Armament
  • 8 × MM40 Exocet SSM
    
  • 1 × 8-cell Albatros SAM (24 Aspide missiles)
    
  • 1 × OTO Melara Otobreda 127/54 Compact
    
  • 4 × twin 40 mm 70-cal. OTO Melara AA
    
  • 12.7 mm machine guns
    
  • 2 × triple 324 mm Whitehead Sistemi Subacquei ILAS-3 ASW torpedo tubes (18 torpedoes tot.)'
    
  • 1 × depth charge rack (9 depth charges)
    
  
  
• Aircraft: aft helicopter deck and hangar; 1 Alouette III or 1 AS-555-SN Fennec
  
• Complement:224
  
• Radar: DA-08A air/surface search
  
• Sonar: Krupp-Atlas 80 hull
  
• Fire Control: WM-25 gun control, STIR SAM control
  
• Electronic Warfare
  • Racal Scimitar jammer; 2 20-round OTO Melara SCLAR decoy launching system
    
  • 1 Graseby G1738 towed torpedo decoy
    
  
  
• Concept/Program: German-built general purpose frigates; they are the main surface asset of the Argentine navy.
  
• Builders: Blohm + Voss, Hamburg, Germany.
  
• Design: MEKO 360 modular design.
  

Ships in the class

• ARA Almirante Brown (D-10)
  
• ARA La Argentina (D-11)
  
• ARA Heroína (D-12)
  
• ARA Sarandí (D-13)