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PERTH guided missile destroyers (1965-1967)


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Hobart 1980  

Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Perth D38, 1969- 38   Defoe SB, Bay City, USA 21.9.1962 28.9.1963 17.7.1965 decommissioned 10.1999, stricken 12.1999
Hobart D39, 1969- 39   Defoe SB, Bay City, USA 26.10.1962 9.1.1964 18.12.1965 decommissioned 5.2000, stricken 8.2000
Brisbane D41, 1969- 41   Defoe SB, Bay City, USA 15.2.1965 5.5.1966 16.12.1967 decommissioned 10.2001, scuttled 7.2005


Technical data


Displacement standard, t

3277
Displacement full, t

4526
Length, m

128.0 wl 133.2 oa
Breadth, m

14.3
Draught, m

4.60
No of shafts

2
Machinery

2 sets General Electric geared steam turbines, 4 Foster Wheeler boilers
Power, h. p.

70000
Max speed, kts

33
Fuel, t

oil
Endurance, nm(kts)4500(20)
Armament

1 x 1 Tartar SAM launcher (40 RIM-24), 2 x 1 Ikara ASuM (26? Ikara), 2 x 1 - 127/54 Mk 42, 2 x 3 - 324 Mk 32 TT
Electronic equipment

SPS-40, SPS-52B, SPS-10, 2x SPG-51C, SPG-53A radars, SQQ-23F sonar
Complement333 - 350


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<i>Hobart</i> 1980  
Hobart 1980  


Project history

Two Charles F. Adams type guided missile destroyers (DDGs) were ordered from the United States in January 1962 and a third was ordered exactly a year later. They were virtually identical to the original class apart from having Ikara in place of ASROC; this necessitated building a deckhouse between the funnels housing the Ikara magazine, with two single-arm launchers port and starboard at the forward end.

Modernizations

1975, Perth; 1978, Hobart; 1979, Brisbane: - 1 x 1 Tartar SAM, SPS-40, SPS-10 radars; + 1 x 1 Standard SM-1MR SAM (40 RIM-66A/B), SPS-40C, SPS-10F, type 975 radars, ERD-4 ECM suite, NCDS CCS

1987, Brisbane; 1988, Perth; 1990, Hobart: - 1 x 1 Standard SM-1MR SAM (40 RIM-66A/B), 2 x 1 Ikara ASuM, SPS-40C, SPG-53A radars, SQQ-23F sonar, ERD-4 ECM suite, NCDS CCS; + 1 x 1 Harpoon SSM / Standard SM-1MR SAM (4 RGM-84D, 36 RIM-66E-5), 2 x 6 - 20/76 Phalanx Mk 15 (fitted for), SPS-40D, SPG-53F, 2x Mk 90 radars (fitted for), SQS-23KL sonar, WLR-1H, ULQ-6 ECM suites, 2x SRBOC decoy RL, SLQ-25A Nixie torpedo decoy, NTDS CCS

Naval service

No significant events.