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RSN decommissions RSS Daring and RSS Resilience

27th July 2018 - 09:30 GMT | by The Shephard News Team

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The Republic of Singapore Navy (RSN) has decommissioned two Fearless-class patrol vessels (PVs) RSS Daring and RSS Resilience at Tuas Naval Base, Singapore’s Ministry of Defence announced on 19 July.

Both the PVs will be replaced by new littoral mission vessels (LMVs). The LMVs are more versatile and equipped with better capabilities, and will be fully operational by 2020.

The Fearless class have been operational since 1996 and were the first warships that were designed and built in Singapore. RSS Daring and RSS Resilience were commissioned on 3 May 1997 and 7 February 1998, respectively.

The ships had safeguarded Singapore's maritime through numerous operations at sea, such as maritime surveillance and patrol and escort operations. They also participated in bilateral and multilateral exercises with foreign navies.

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