Hobart-class Guided Missile Destroyer

The Hobart-class Guided Missile Destroyer is a class of warship designed to replace the decommissioned Perth-class destroyers in the RAN. The Hobart is based on the Spanish Álvaro de Bazán-class guided missile frigate.

Specifications

 * Type: Guided Missile Destroyer
 * Service Period: 2007-
 * Characteristics
 * Length: 483 feet (147.22 meters)
 * Beam: 61 feet (18.60 meters)
 * Draught: 17 feet (5.19 meters)
 * Displacement: 6,250 tonnes (6,150 long tons; 6,890 short tons) full load
 * Crew: 202 (186 ship crew and 16 air crew)
 * Power: 109,900 shp (82.99 MW)
 * Propulsion: 2 x General Electric LM2500+G4 gas turbines, 2 x Caterpillar Bravo 16 V Bravo diesel engines, 2 x controllable pitch propellers
 * Range: 6,200 nautical miles (11,482 km; 7,135 mi) at 18 knots (33.34 km/hr; 20.72 mph)
 * Speed: 35 Knots (64.82 km/hr; 40.28 mph)
 * Sensor Suite/Countermeasures
 * AEGIS Combat System
 * Raytheon AN/SPY-1D(V) S-band air search radar
 * Northrop Grumman AN/SPQ-9B X-band fire control radar
 * Raytheon Mark 99 fire-control system with two continuous wave illuminating radars
 * L-3 Communications SAM Electronics X-band navigation radars x 2
 * Ultra Electronics Maritime Systems' Modular Multistatic Variable Depth Sonar System
 * Ultra Electronics Series 2500 electro-optical director
 * Sagem VAMPIR IR search and track system
 * Rafael Toplite stabilised target acquisition sights
 * ITT EDO Reconnaissance and Surveillance Systems ES-3701 ESM radar
 * SwRI MBS-567A communications ESM system
 * Ultra Electronics Avalon Systems multipurpose digital receiver
 * Jenkins Engineering Defence Systems low-band receiver
 * Nulka decoy launchers x 4
 * 6-tube multipurpose decoy launchers x 4
 * Armament
 * 1 x Mark 45 Mod 4 5"/62-caliber naval gun
 * 1 x 48-cell Mark 41 Vertical Launching System (fires UGM-109 Tomahawk, RUM-139 VL-ASROC, RIM-156 SM-2ER Block IV, RIM-161 SM-3 RIM-162 ESSM, RIM-174 Standard ERAM)
 * 2 x 4-canister Mark 141 Harpoon Missile Launchers
 * 2 x M242 Bushmaster 25mm autocannons
 * 2 x Mark 32 Mod 9 triple fire torpedo tubes (fires Eurotorp MU90 torpedoes)
 * 1 x 20mm Phalanx CIWS
 * Aircraft Carried: 1 x SH-70B-2 Seahawk

Royal Australian Navy

 * HMAS Hobart (D47)
 * HMAS Brisbane (D48)
 * HMAS Melbourne (D49)
 * HMAS Darwin (D50)
 * HMAS Mackay (D51)
 * HMAS Shepparton (D52)

Royal New Zealand Navy

 * HMNZS Stalwart (D01)
 * HMNZS Soutland (D02)