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Impetuoso 1980  

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comm	Fate
Impetuoso	D558		CNR, Riva Trigoso	7.5.1952	16.9.1956	25.1.1958	stricken 1983
Indomito	D559		Ansaldo, Livorno	24.4.1952	9.8.1955	23.2.1958	stricken 11.1980

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	2775
Displacement full, t	3810
Length, m	123.4 pp 127.6 oa
Breadth, m	13.2
Draught, m	4.50
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 sets geared steam turbines, 4 Foster Wheeler boilers
Power, h. p.	65000
Max speed, kts	34
Fuel, t	oil 650
Endurance, nm(kts)	3000(16)
Armament	2 x 2 -127/38 Mk 38, 2 x 4 - 40/60 Mk 4, 4 x 2 - 40/60 Mk 1, 2 - 533 TT, 1 x 3 - 305 Menon ASWRL, 4 DCT, 1 DCR
Electronic equipment	SPS-6, SG-6B, 4x SPG-34, Mk 25 radars, SQS-11 sonar
Complement	315

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Project history

These two ships were ordered in February 1950, and were the first postwar Italian destroyers. The hull design was based on that of the wartime 'Commandante' class. The powerplant was probably that of the US Gearing class. Armament and sensors broadly matched those of contemporary US ASW destroyers, except that the ASW weapon was the Italian mortar. A major reconstruction proposed in the late 1960s would have rearmed them with a single lightweight 127mm/54 forward and Tartar aft.

Modernizations

late 1960s, both: - 2 - 533 TT, SQS-11 sonar; + 2 x 3 - 324 TT, SQS-4 sonar

late 1970s, Impetuoso: + WLR-1, SLQ-A ECM suites