KDB Daruttaqwa

KDB Daruttaqwa (09) is the fourth and final ship of the Darussalam-class offshore patrol vessels in the Sultanate of Brunei Darussalam. The vessel is in active service in the Royal Brunei Navy (RBN).

Offshore patrol vessel programme
Brunei Darussalam ordered the Darussalam-class offshore patrol vessels from Lürssen Werft, the same company that Brunei contracted to sell the contract-disputed Nakhoda Ragam-class corvettes. The first two vessels were delivered in January 2011. The final ship of the second batch of two ships were delivered by 2014.

Construction and career
Daruttaqwa was built by Lürssen Werft company in Germany around the late 2000s. She is part of the second batch of two ships delivered from Germany to Brunei Darussalam. Daruttaqwa commissioned on September 8, 2014, at Muara Naval Base. All four sister ships work in the offshore patrol vessel role.

MNEK 2016
16 April 2016, Daruttaqwa was sent to Padang, Indonesia for Maritime Naval Exercise Komodo 2016, which is hosted by the Indonesian Navy from 12 to 16 April 2016.

LIMA’19
Daruttaqwa was sent on a Maritime Exercise in Langkawi, Malaysia for "Langkawi International Maritime & Aerospace Exhibition 2019" (LIMA’19) which will last from 19–22 March 2019. She returned to Muara Naval Base on 5 April 2019.

PLAN 70th Anniversary
On April 12, 2019, KDB Daruttaqwa left Muara Port for Qingdao, China to celebrate the 70th Anniversary of People's Liberation Army Navy. Daruttaqwa later on joined "ADMM-Plus 2019".

ADMM-Plus 2019
Daruttaqwa, HMAS Success (OR 304), Xiangtan, INS Kolkata, INS Shakti (A57), KRI Halasan, KRI Tombak, JS Murasame, JS Izumo, KD Lekiu, BRP Andrés Bonifacio, RSS Stalwart, MV Avatar, ROKS Cheonjabong, ROKS Jeonbuk, ROKS Wang Geon, HTMS Bhumibol Adulyadej, USS William P. Lawrence and VPNS Quang Trung conducted "ADMM-PLUS 2019" off Busan, South Korea. The ships have to conduct an exercise where they need to retake hostile vessels and rescue people overboard at sea.

All ships returned to Singapore to conduct check aboard cargo ships. Daruttaqwa returned to Muara Naval Base on 20 May 2019.