The Espora-class corvettes are six warships of the Argentine Navy built in Argentina to the German MEKO 140A16 design, this in turn being based on the Portuguese João Coutinho-class project. The first
DARDO originally known as Breda Type-70, also marketed as the OTO Twin 40L70 Compact, is a close-in weapon system built by the Italian companies Breda and OTO Melara. It is composed of two Breda-built
Espora-class corvette
…RCM-2 jammer 2 × Matra Dagaie decoys Armament 4 × MM38 Exocet anti-ship missiles (removed from Parker) 1 × 76 mm/62 OTO Melara dual purpose gun 2 × DARDO twin 40 mm AA guns 2 × .50 cal machine guns 2 × triple 324 mm ILAS-3 tubes (WASS A-244S torpedoes) Aircraft carried 1 × Eurocopter Fennec (P44-P46…
Breda Dardo 40mm
DARDO Compact mounting on Peruvian navy landing platform dock, BAP Pisco (AMP-156).
Single Fast Forty mounting on Kuwaiti navy Um Al Maradim-class missile boat, Al Fahaheel (P3721).
OTO Marlin 40 (ILOS) mounting on Indonesian navy corvette, KRI Bung Karno (369).