The Avante 2200 is a

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design by the

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shipyard of

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. Navantia has developed an Avante family of ships with different sizes, and adapted to different missions. They share the same design standard. Navantia integrated multiple systems, including its Catiz combat management system, Hermesys integrated communications system, Dorna fire-control system and Minerva integrated bridge system.

Variants

''Guaiquerí''-class patrol boat

Four Avante 2200 corvettes were built by Navantia to the ''Guaiquerí''-class design for the

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. The first ship was commissioned in April 2011 and the last in January 2012.

''Al Jubail''-class corvette

In July 2018, Navantia signed an agreement with the

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for the production of five Avante 2200 corvettes, called . The last was to be delivered by 2022 at a cost of approximately 2 billion Euros. Navantia signed a joint-venture agreement with state-owned Saudia Arabian Military Industries (SAMI) to build five corvettes based on the Avante 2200 for the Royal Saudi Naval Forces (RSNF). Under the agreement, the last vessel must be delivered in 2024, including construction, life cycle support for five years, with an option for another five years. The RSNF variant is called the Avante 2200. The Saudi Arabian variant is a 2,000-ton class vessel capable of performing anti-submarine warfare (ASW), anti-surface warfare (ASuW) and anti-air warfare (AAW). The Al Jubail-class corvette has a maximum range of 4,500 nautical miles, achieving 25 knots, powered by four diesel engines in a CODAD arrangement. The ''Al Jubail'' class is fitted with a Leonardo SUPER RAPID 76 mm main gun, a Rheinmetall Air Defence MILLENNIUM 35mm close-in weapon system, four 12.7 mm machine guns, two triple torpedo tubes, two by quad anti-ship missiles and 64 ESSM surface-to-air missiles (16-cell Mk 41).

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POVZEE Offshore Patrol Vessel

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