Sydney-class Guided Missile Frigate

The Sydney-class Guided Missile Frigate are a class of twelve frigates in the RAN based on the MEKO-200SAN design (although it gained a 28 foot hull stretch and replaced the 76mm gun for a Mark 45 Mod 4 5"/62-caliber gun). The class was ordered after the 2008 Indian Ocean War that cost the RAN the HMAS Anzac and HMAS Sydney. The Sydney class is expected to replace the entirity of the Adelaide and Anzac-class frigates by 2016.

Specifications

 * Type: Guided Missile Frigate (Hull designation symbol FFG)
 * Characteristics
 * Length: 425 feet (129.54 meters)
 * Beam: 53.6 feet (16.34 meters)
 * Draught: 19.5 feet (5.95 meters)
 * Displacement: 3,961 tons
 * Crew: 225
 * Power: 63,250 shp (47.2 MW)
 * Range: 9,600 nautical miles (17,780 Kilometers)
 * Speed: 32 Knots (59.27 Kilometers/Hour; 36.83 Miles/Hour)
 * Propulsion
 * 2 x MTU 16V 1163 TB93 diesel engines, 5,920 kilowatts (7,940 hp) each, 2 shafts for cruise;
 * 1 x General Electric LM2500+G4 gas turbine (47,370 shp)
 * Sensor Suite
 * AEGIS Combat System
 * AN/SPY-1F 3D 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
 * 2 x 4-cell Mark 141 Harpoon missile launchers
 * 1 x 16-cell Mark 41 Vertical Launching System
 * 2 x Denel Systems 35mm Naval Defender CIWS
 * 2 x Mark 32 Mod 9 12.75" triple fire torpedo tubes
 * 6 x M2 Brown 12.7mm machine guns

Unit Run

 * HMAS Sydney (FFG-07)
 * HMAS Alice Springs (FFG-08)
 * HMAS Broken Hill (FFG-09)
 * HMAS Devonport (FFG-10)
 * HMAS Newcastle (FFG-11)
 * HMAS Anzac (FFG-12)
 * HMAS Rockingham (FFG-13)
 * HMAS Palmerston (FFG-14) - under construction
 * HMAS Gladstone (FFG-15) - under construction
 * HMAS Bairnsdale (FFG-16) - under construction
 * HMAS Cairns (FFG-17) - under construction
 * HMAS Liverpool (FFG-18) - under construction