![]() KD Lekiu (FFG30)
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Name | KD Lekiu |
Namesake | Hang Lekiu |
Builder | Yarrow Shipbuilders, Glasgow |
Launched | December 1994 |
Commissioned | May 1999 |
Status | In active service |
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Class and type | Lekiu-class frigate |
Displacement | 2,270 long tons (2,306 t) full load |
Length | 106 m (347 ft 9 in) |
Beam | 12.8 m (42 ft 0 in) |
Draught | 3.6 m (11 ft 10 in) |
Propulsion | 4 diesels, 2 shafts, 16,000 bhp (11,931 kW) |
Speed | 28 knots (32 mph; 52 km/h) |
Range | 5,000 mi (8,000 km) |
Complement | 146 with 18 officers |
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Armament |
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Aircraft carried | 1 × Super Lynx 300 helicopter |
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KD Lekiu is a Lekiu-class guided missile frigate currently serving in the Royal Malaysian Navy and one of the major naval assets for Malaysia. Together with her sister ship Jebat, Lekiu serves in the 23rd Frigate Squadron of the Royal Malaysian Navy.[1]