KD Lekiu (FFG30) and KD Jebat (FFG29) with USS George Washington
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Name | Lekiu class |
Builders | Yarrow Shipbuilders, Glasgow, UK |
Operators | Royal Malaysian Navy |
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Succeeded by | Maharaja Lela class |
Completed | 2 |
Active | 2 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | F2000 frigate |
Displacement | 2,300 tons full load |
Length | 106 m (348 ft) |
Beam | 12.75 m (41.8 ft) |
Draught | 3.08 m (10.1 ft) |
Propulsion | 4 × MTU 20V 1163 TB93 diesel engines, 24.5MW, twin shafts with Kamewa controllable pitch propellers |
Speed | 28 knots (52 km/h; 32 mph) |
Range | 5,000 nmi (9,300 km; 5,800 mi) |
Complement | 146 with 18 officers |
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Electronic warfare & decoys |
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Armament |
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Aircraft carried | 1 × Super Lynx 300 |
Aviation facilities |
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The Lekiu-class frigates are a class of frigates of the Royal Malaysian Navy. They are the largest and most modern surface combatants of the Royal Malaysian Navy, until the Maharaja Lela-class frigates are completed. The class comprises two vessels, KD Jebat and KD Lekiu. The class is named after the second ship of the class which was launched before Jebat.
The two ships of the class are named after Hang Lekiu and Hang Jebat, two figures from the Malay 15th-century epic narrative Hikayat Hang Tuah. They share this characteristic with the two Kasturi-class corvettes, KD Kasturi and KD Lekir, as well as the old frigate-turned-training ship KD Hang Tuah, all of which are named after figures from the epic as well.