NAVYPEDIA

Photo

Blas de Lezo 2008

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Álvaro de Bazán	F101		Navantia, Ferrol	14.6.1999	27.10.2000	19.9.2002	in service (2019)
Almirante Juan de Borbón	F102		Navantia, Ferrol	27.10.2000	28.2.2002	3.12.2003	in service (2019)
Blas de Lezo	F103		Navantia, Ferrol	28.2.2002	16.5.2003	16.12.2004	in service (2019)
Méndez Núñez	F104		Navantia, Ferrol	16.5.2003	12.11.2004	21.3.2006	in service (2019)
Cristóbal Colón	F105		Navantia, Ferrol	20.2.2009	4.11.2010	23.10.2012	in service (2019)

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	F101-104: 4555 F105: 4605
Displacement full, t	F101-104: 6000 F105: 6050
Length, m	133.2 pp 146.7 oa
Breadth, m	18.6
Draught, m	7.20 max 4.75 mean hull
No of shafts	2
Machinery	F101-104: CODOG: 2 General Electric LM-2500 gas turbines / 2 Caterpillar CAT3600B12 diesels F105: CODOG: 2 General Electric LM-2500 gas turbines / 2 Caterpillar CAT3600B16 diesels
Power, h. p.	F101-104: 47600 / 12240 F105: 47600 / 16320
Max speed, kts	29
Fuel, t	gas turbine / diesel oil
Endurance, nm(kts)	5000(18)
Armament	F101-104: 2 x 4 Harpoon SSM (8 RGM-84F), 1 x 48 Standard SM-2MR Block IIIA SAM / ESSM SAM (VLS, 32 RIM-66L / 64 RIM-162), 1 x 1 - 127/54 Mk 45 Mod. 2, 2 x 1 - 20/120 Oerlikon, 4 x 1 - 12.7/90, 4 - 324 Mk 32 Mod. 9 TT, 1 helicopter (SH-60B) F105: 2 x 4 Harpoon SSM (8 RGM-84F), 1 x 48 Standard SM-2MR Block IIIB SAM / ESSM SAM (VLS, 32 RIM-66L / 64 RIM-162), 1 x 1 - 127/54 Mk 45 Mod. 4, 2 x 1 - 25/75 Mk 38, 4 x 1 - 12.7/90, 4 - 324 Mk 32 Mod. 9 TT, 1 helicopter (SH-60B)
Electronic equipment	F101-104: SPY-1D, SPS-73(v)12, SPS-67(v)3, 2x SPG-62, DORNA radars, Sirius e/o director, DE1160 sonar, Elnath Mk 9000, Aldebarán SLQ-380, Regulus Mk 9500 ECM suites, 4x Mk 36 SRBOC decoy RL, SLQ-25 Nixie torpedo decoy, DANCS CCS F105: SPY-1D(v), 2x Aries, 2x SPG-62, DORNA radars, FLIR e/o detector, Sirius e/o director, DE1160 sonar, Elnath Mk 9000, Aldebarán SLQ-380, Regulus Mk 9500 ECM suites, 4x Mk 36 SRBOC decoy RL, SLQ-25 Nixie torpedo decoy, DANCS CEC CCS
Complement	235

Standard scale images

Graphics

Project history

Were to have been constructed under a 1994 cooperative venture with Germany and the Netherlands. Spain, however, withdrew from the radar and weapons control portions of the agreement in 1995. Authority to construct four was granted by the Council of Ministers in 1997, the contract was placed 31.1.1997, and fabrication of modules began during November 1997. The Standard SAM system provides AAW coverage out to 150+ km. The fifth unit of the class was ordered during June 2005. Have fin stabilizers. A design growth margin of 450t was provided, and maximum permissible displacement is 6250t. 15x5.8x5.6m hangar can accommodate two SH-60-sized helicopters, but only one is assigned to each ship; the flight deck measures 27x17m. Fireproof internal paneling is employed, and special efforts have been made to reduce radar, acoustic, and heat signatures. Lockheed Martin Distributed Advanced Naval Combat System is much the same Aegis Baseline 5 Phase in system used on current-construction U.S. Arleigh Burke-class destroyers, but the Spanish version has a federated data-distribution architecture, giving it some features of the later Aegis Baseline 6 Phase I on the first two ships and Baseline 7 Phase I on the latter two.

Planned F106 Roger de Lauria was authorised in March 2007 with construction start in 2009 but suspended and finally cancelled in 2012.

Modernizations

2009-2010, all completed: - Standard SM-2MR Block IIIA SAM; + Standard SM-2MR Block IIIB SAM

Naval service

No significant events.