Algerian Navy

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القوات البحرية الجزائرية
Algerian Navy
Algerian National Navy
Naval Ensign of Algeria.svg

Algerian naval war flag
active 1962 until today
Country AlgeriaAlgeria Algeria
Armed forces Algerian armed forces
Armed forces Naval forces
Type Armed forces ( navy )
Strength 6000

The Algerian Navy ( Arabic القوات البحرية الجزائرية, DMG al-quwwāt al-baḥriyya al-ǧazāʾiriyya ) has a strength of about 6000 soldiers .

bases

The headquarters are in Algiers . The Navy is divided into the 1st Marine Region in Algiers, the 2nd Marine Region in Mers-el-Kébir and the 3rd Marine Region in Jijel . Other bases are located in Annaba , Oran and Tamentfoust (Naval Academy).

Ships

For the fulfillment of the tasks of the navy this has:

Mourad Rais class frigate
The corvette El Chihab
The landing ship Kalaat Béni Abbès
The tug El Mousif
    • 3 El Mounjid class ships
      • El Mounjid (701)
      • El Moussif (702)
      • El Moussanid (703)
  • School ships :
    • 1 ship of the Daxin AXH class
      • Soummam (937)
    • 1 sailing training ship
      • El Mella (938)

Algeria is planning to renew the frigate fleet with two new units. Both ships are built in Kiel and are based on the MeKo A-200 design, have a length of 121 m and displace around 3500 t. The sea endurance is given as 28 days, the crew should be 124 men. The RBS 15 Mk3 missile, which can be land-targeted, is the main weapon . The frigates are scheduled to enter service in 2016 and 2018. In addition to the two mentioned ships from Germany, three multi-purpose corvettes of the type C28A will be procured from China. These are scheduled to start operating in 2015.

Coast guard

The 500-strong Algerian Coast Guard, which has its headquarters in Annaba , belongs to the Navy .

Please refer

Web links

Commons : Algerian Navy  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. Country information from the Austrian Ministry of Defense
  2. Algeria commissions first MEKO A-200 frigate ( Memento from April 26, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), Janes, April 26, 2016
  3. ^ Algeria commissions second Meko frigate , Janes, May 25, 2017
  4. Algeria receives third Chinese-built C28A corvette , Janes, July 22, 2016
  5. Mittler Verlag, Europäische Technik und Sicherheit Edition 01/2015 Undocking the Meko 200A frigates , January 1st, 2015
  6. ^ Report in the Kieler Nachrichten of October 4, 2014
  7. ^ "The Algerian Navy - The operational tasks remain off the own coast" , article in the journal Marineforum from December 14, 2015