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Lángara 1975

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comm	Fate
Churucca (ex-Eugene A. Greene)	D61		Federal, Kearny, USA	8/1944	18.3.1945	6/1945 // 31.8.1972	stricken 12.1991
Gravina (ex-Furse)	D62		Consolidated, Orange, USA	9/1944	9.3.1945	7/1945 // 31.8.1972	stricken 9.1991
Méndez Núñez (ex-O'Hare)	D63		Consolidated, Orange, USA	1/1945	22.6.1945	11/1945 // 31.10.1973	stricken 4.1992
Lángara (ex-Leary)	D64		Consolidated, Orange, USA	8/1944	20.1.1945	5/1945 // 31.10.1973	stricken 4.1992
Blas de Lezo (ex-Noa)	D65		Bath Iron Wks, USA	3/1945	30.7.1945	11/1945 // 31.10.1973	stricken 9.1991

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	2406
Displacement full, t	3493
Length, m	116.6 wl 119.0 oa
Breadth, m	12.5
Draught, m	4.40
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 sets General Electric geared steam turbines, 4 Babcock & Wilcox boilers
Power, h. p.	60000
Max speed, kts	32
Fuel, t	oil 650
Endurance, nm(kts)	4000 (20)
Armament	1 х 8 ASROC ASuR (17 RUR-5), 2 x 2 - 127/38 Mk 38, 2 x 3 - 324 TT, 1 helicopter (Hughes 369)
Electronic equipment	D61, 62: SPS-10, SPS-40, Mk 25 or Mk 28 radars, SQS-23 sonar, WLR-1, ULQ-6 ECM suites D63-65: SPS-10, SPS-37, Mk 25 or Mk 28 radars, SQS-23 sonar, WLR-1, ULQ-6 ECM suites
Complement	274

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Project history

Former USN Gearing class destroyers, transferred under MDAP and purchased outright on 17 May 1978; all FRAM I modernisations. Bias de Lezo had both gun turrets forward, the others had turrets in 'A' and 'Y' positions.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

No significant events.