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Bronstein 1975

Ships

No	Name	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comm	Fate
DE1037, 6.1975- FF1037	Bronstein	985	Avondale, Westwego	16.5.1961	31.3.1962	16.6.1963	stricken 10.1991, to Mexico (Hermenegildo Galeana)
DE1038, 6.1975- FF1038	McCloy	986	Avondale, Westwego	15.9.1951	9.6.1962	21.10.1963	stricken 10.1991, to Mexico (Nicolás Bravo)

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	1882
Displacement full, t	2723
Length, m	106.7 wl 113.4 oa
Breadth, m	12.5
Draught, m	7.00
No of shafts	1
Machinery	1 set De Laval geared steam turbines, 2 Foster Wheeler boilers
Power, h. p.	20000
Max speed, kts	26
Fuel, t	oil 480
Endurance, nm(kts)	4000(15)
Armament	1 x 8 ASROC ASuR (8 RUR-5), 1 x 2 - 76/50 Mk 33, 1 x 1 - 76/50 Mk 34, 2 - 533 Mk 24 TT, 2 x 3 - 324 Mk 32 TT (14), 1 QH-50 DASH drone ASW helicopter, hangar and helicopter deck
Electronic equipment	SPS-10F, SPS-40D, Mk 35 radars, SQS-26AXR sonar, WLR-1, WLR-3, ULQ-6 ECM suites
Complement	191

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Project history

These ships, the progenitors of a long line of large US ASW escorts, were conceived as a reaction to the Claud Jones class, in effect a Dealy with the new SQS-26 sonar, ASROC and DASH, with one of the original four 76mm/50 guns traded off for greater ASW effectiveness. One of the penalties was a loss of speed, so that the new escort was slower than the ASW Task Force with which she was to operate; the desire to regain speed (compared to the Dealey or even as compared to a 30kt submarine) led to the next series of ships.

Modernizations

mid-1970s, both: - 1 x 1 - 76/50

early 1980s, McCloy: + SQR-15 sonar

Naval service

No significant events.