Name Gen. Emilio Aguinaldo Commissioned 21 November 1990 Launched 23 June 1984 Beam 6.2 m | Operator Philippine Navy Homeport Naval Base Cavite Length 44 m Builder Cavite Naval Ship Yard | |
Namesake General Emilio Aguinaldo (1869–1964), was a Filipino revolutionary general and the 1st President of the Philippines Status In service with the Philippine Navy | ||
The BRP Gen. Emilio Aguinaldo is the lead ship of the General Emilio Aguinaldo class patrol vessel of the Philippine Navy. This ship, along with her only sistership BRP Gen. Antonio Luna (PG-141), is one of the last that were made in the Cavite Naval Ship Yard. The original plan called for 6 Aguinaldo class vessels to be built, but this number may not be reached.
Technical details
The ship's basic hull design was based on the Japanese-designed Tirad Pass SAR vessel, and the superstructure was adopted from the German-designed Kagitingan class. The class's design was found to be overloaded and underpowered and due to this, there were no more plans to build all the ships originally planned.
The present weapon systems of the ship are composed of manually operated gun platforms, some guns which are from World War II origin. They are composed of two Mk.3 Bofors 40 mm 60-cal single-mount guns acting as the ship's primary weapon, together with two 20 mm Oerlikon single-mount anti-aircraft guns and four 12.7 mm general purpose machine guns.
The ship is powered by four GM Detroit Diesel 12V92 TA diesel engines with a combined power of around 2,800 bhp (2,100 kW) driving four propellers. The main engines can propel the 279-ton (full load) ship at a maximum speed of around 25 knots (46 km/h). It has a maximum range of 1,100 nautical miles (2,040 km) at a speed of 18 knots (33 km/h).