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Netzahualcóyotl 1995

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Quetzalcóatl (ex-Vogelgesang), 1993- Ilhuicamina, 2001- Quetzalcóatl	E03, 1993- E10, 2001- D101		Bethlehem, Staten I, Port Richmond, USA	3.8.1944	15.1.1945	28.4.1945 // 24.2.1982	stricken 8.2002
Netzahualcóyotl (ex-Steinaker)	E04, 1993- E11, 2001- D102		Bethlehem, Staten I, Port Richmond, USA	1.9.1944	13.2.1945	28.5.1945 // 24.2.1982	stricken 2013

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	2448
Displacement full, t	3528
Length, m	116.6 wl 119.0 oa
Breadth, m	12.5
Draught, m	4.45 hull 6.40 sonar
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 sets General Electric geared steam turbines, 4 Babcock & Wilcox boilers
Power, h. p.	60000
Max speed, kts	30
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 Mk 32 TT, helicopter deck
Electronic equipment	E03: LN-66, SPS-10, SPS-40B, Mk 25 radars, SQS-23 sonar, WLR-1 ECM suite E04: LN-66, SPS-10, SPS-29, Mk 25 radars, SQS-23 sonar, WLR-1 ECM suite
Complement	275

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Project history

Former USN Gearing FRAM I class destroyers. In 1990s both could make no more than 15kts due to boiler problems.

Modernizations

1980s, both: - LN-66 radar; + Kelvin Hughes 17/9 radar

1993, both: + 1 x 1 - 57/70 Bofors SAK57 Mk 2

1994, both: - 1 x 8 ASROC ASuR, 2 x 3 - 324 TT, SQS-23 sonar (sonar was aboard but no functional)

early 2000s, Netzahualcóyotl: - SPS-29 radar; + SPS-37 radar

2002, Netzahualcóyotl: - 1 x 1 - 57/70

Naval service

No significant events.