RSS Valiant on 6 April 2018
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History | |
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Singapore | |
Name | Valiant |
Namesake | Valiant |
Builder | ST Engineering |
Launched | 22 July 1989 |
Commissioned | 25 May 1991 |
Homeport | Tuas |
Identification | |
Motto | Fight Valiantly |
Status | Active |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Victory-class corvette |
Displacement | 595 t (586 long tons; 656 short tons) |
Length | 62 m (203 ft 5 in) |
Beam | 8.5 m (27 ft 11 in) |
Draught | 2.6 m (8 ft 6 in) |
Propulsion | |
Speed |
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Range | 4,000 nmi (7,400 km) at 18 knots (33 km/h; 21 mph) |
Complement | 49 with 8 officers |
Sensors and processing systems |
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Electronic warfare & decoys | |
Armament |
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Aircraft carried | 1× Boeing ScanEagle unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) |
RSS Valiant (91) is the fourth ship of the Victory-class corvette of the Republic of Singapore Navy. [1]
Valiant was launched on 22 July 1989 by ST Engineering and was commissioned on 25 May 1991. [2]
Singapore and Brunei concluded their flagship bilateral naval exercise on 27 November. Exercise Pelican ran from 23 to 27 November 2015, hosted by the Republic of Singapore Navy. The exercise featured RSS Stalwart, RSS Valiant, KDB Darussalam and KDB Darulehsan.
On 6 April 2018, RSS Supreme and RSS Valiant underwent alongside USS Sampson and USS Theodore Roosevelt off Singapore. [3]