Minerva-class corvette

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| Ship image = Urania F552.jpg

| Ship caption = Urania at Málaga in 2001

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{{Infobox ship class overview

| Name = Minerva class

| Builders = Fincantieri

| Operators = * {{navy|Italy}} (retired)

• {{coast guard|Bangladesh}} (active)

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| In commission range = 1987

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| Total ships completed = 8

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| Total ships active = 4 (as OPV)

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| Total ships sold = 4

| Total ships retired = 4

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| Ship type = Corvette

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| Ship displacement = {{convert|1285|t|LT|abbr=on|lk=in}} full load

| Ship length = {{convert|87|m|abbr=on}} LOA

| Ship beam = {{convert|10.5|m|abbr=on}}

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| Ship draught = {{convert|3.2

| Ship depth = {{convert|5.5|m|abbr=on}}

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| Ship propulsion = *- 2 x shaft

• - 2 x Diesel engines Grandi Motori Trieste GMT BM-230.20 DVM outputting {{convert|11.000|hp|abbr=on}}
• - 4 x diesel engine generators Isotta Fraschini ID-36-SS-12V, {{convert|2.600|kW|abbr=on}}, with Ansaldo MXR 400 M6Z electric generators

| Ship speed = {{convert|25|kn}}

| Ship range = {{convert|3500|nmi|abbr=on}} at {{convert|18|kn}}

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| Ship complement = 7 officers, 113 enlisted

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| Ship sensors = *- 1 x Selenia AA/ASu-Radar SPS-774 (RAN 10S) E/F Band

• - 1 x SMA SPS-728 Navigation radar
• - 1 x Selenia Fire control SPG-75 (RTN 30X) for Albatros and 76mm
• - 1 x Sonar Raythron/Elsag DE-1167
• - CMS Selenia IPN-10 (Mini-SADOC), Link 11
• - ASW AN/SLQ-25 Nixie

| Ship EW = *- ESM/ECM Selenia SLQ-747 (INS-3)

• - 2 x Wallop Defence Systems Barricade decoy launchers

| Ship armament = *- 1 x OTO Melara 76 mm Gun

• - 2 x OTO Melara 25/80 guns with Oerlikon KBA 25mm
• - 1 x Sea Sparrow or Selenia Aspide in an 8-cell launcher
• - 2 × triple 324 mm TLS ASW torpedoes
• - 4 heavy machine guns

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