Type 82 Destroyer

The Type 82 or Bristol-class destroyer was to have been a class of eight Royal Navy warships intended as area air-defence destroyers to replace the County-class destroyers, and to serve as escorts to the planned CVA-01 aircraft carriers. Eventually only a single ship, HMS Bristol was built and served as a testbed for much of the modern technology and armaments seen in later classes of Royal Navy warships. Sometimes described as a "light cruiser", she was officially classified as a destroyer.

The 82 was succeeded in role by Admiral and later Daring class destroyers.

Specifications

 * Type: Air Defense Destroyer/Cadet Training Ship
 * Service Period: 1973-Present
 * Characteristics:
 * Length: 507 feet (154.53 meters)
 * Beam: 55 feet (16.76 meters)
 * Draught: 25 feet (7.62 meters)
 * Displacement: 6,400 tonnes (Standard); 7,100 tons (Full Load)
 * Crew: 397 (30 officers and 367 enlisted)
 * Propulsion: COSAG
 * 2 x Babcock & Wilcox steam boilers, 30,000 shp
 * 2 x Rolls Royce Olympus TM1A gas turbines, 44,000 shp
 * 1 x AEI geared steam turbine
 * 2 x shafts
 * Range: 5,750 nautical miles (10,649 kilometers) at 18 knots (33.34 km/h)
 * Speed: 30 knots (55.56 km/h)
 * Sensor Suite:
 * Type 965M 3D Air Search Radar x 1 - replaced by Type 1022 in 1986
 * Type 992R Surface Search Radar x 1
 * Type 978 Navigation Radar - replaced by Type 1006 in 1986
 * Type 909 Fire Control Radar x 2
 * Type 170 Search Sonar
 * Type 162M Passive Search Sonar
 * Type 184M Targeting Sonar
 * Countermeasures:
 * UAA-1 Electronic Warfare Suite - added in 1979
 * Type 675 Electronic Countermeasures Suite - added in 1979
 * Mk.36 SBROC Decoy Launchers x 2 - added in 1983
 * Vickers Corvus decoy launchers x 2 - added in 1979
 * Type 182 Towed Torpedo Decoy
 * Armament:
 * 1 x QF 4.5"/55-caliber Mk.8 naval gun
 * 1 x Sea Dart Launcher (fires GWS.30 Sea Dart SAMs)
 * 1 x Ikara ASW rocket launcher - removed in 1986
 * 1 x Mk.10 Limbo ASW mortar - removed in 1978
 * 2 x BMARC GCM-AO3 30mm anti-aircraft guns - replaced by Mk.15 Phalanx CIWS in 1986
 * 2 x Oerlikon/BMARC 20mm/93-caliber autocannons - increased to 4 in 1983
 * Aircraft Carried:

Unit Run

 * HMS Bristol (D23)
 * HMS Unnamed - cancelled
 * HMS Unnamed - cancelled
 * HMS Unnamed - cancelled
 * HMS Unnamed - cancelled
 * HMS Unnamed - cancelled
 * HMS Unnamed - cancelled
 * HMS Unnamed - cancelled