Laksamana-class corvette
KD Laksamana Muhammad Amin (F136) during Cooperation Afloat Readiness and Training (CARAT) exercises | |
| Class overview | |
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| Name | Laksamana class |
| Builders | Fincantieri, Marghera Shipyard |
| Operators | Royal Malaysian Navy |
| Succeeded by | Kasturi class |
| Subclasses | Assad class |
| Built | 1982-1988 |
| In commission | 1997-present |
| Completed | 4 |
| Active | 2 |
| Retired | 2 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Corvette |
| Displacement | 675 tons full load |
| Length | 62.3 m (204 ft 5 in) |
| Beam | 9.3 m (30 ft 6 in) |
| Draught | 2.8 m (9 ft 2 in) |
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| Speed | 36 knots (67 km/h) |
| Range | 2,300 nautical miles (4,300 km) at 18 knots (33 km/h) |
| Complement | 56 |
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| Electronic warfare & decoys |
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| Notes | The missile might be removed due to being obsolete |
The Laksamana class is a class of small missile corvettes comprising four ships currently in service with the Royal Malaysian Navy. Two out of four ships of the Laksamana class are currently serving in the 24th Corvette Squadron of the Royal Malaysian Navy, while the remaining 2 were decommisioned in 5 June 2025, with plans of preserving one of the decommisioned ships into a monument in Dataran Pahlawan, Putrajaya still underway.