The Andrea Doria-class guided missile destroyers are a class of four warships in service in the Regia Marina from the late 2000s onwards.
Specifications[]
- Type: Air Warfare Destroyer
- Service Period: 2007-
- Characteristics
- Length: 501 feet 6.5 inches (152.87 meters)
- Beam: 66 feet 8 inches (20.32 meters)
- Draft: 17 feet 8.6 inches (5.4 meters)
- Displacement: 5,600 tons (Standard); 7,050 tons (Full Load)
- Crew: 174 (26 officers, 110 petty officers, 38 sailors)
- Propulsion: 2 x 31,280 hp GE/Avio General Electric LM2500 gas turbines, 2 x 5,875 hp SEMT Pielstick 12 PA6 STC diesels, 1 x beam propulsor, 2 x 4-blade propellers
- Range: 7,000 nautical miles (13,964 kilometers) at 18 knots (33.34 km/hr), 3,500 nautical miles (6,482 kilometers) at 25 knots (46.3 km/hr)
- Speed: 31.5 knots (58.34 km/hr)
- Sensor Suite
- Surface search RDF in E/F band Selex RAN 30X/I (RASS)
- Multi-functional 3D phased array RDF in G band Selex SPY-790 (EMPAR) (Principal sensor of PAAMS)
- Long Range 3D RDF in D band Thales/Selex S1850M
- Secondary Surveillance RDF Selex SIR R/S
- Navigation and Helo decking RDF in I band Selex SPN 753(V)4 (NAVR)
- Multi-Sensor target indiction system NA 25X (Radar and electro-optical sensor RTN-30X) x 2
- Bispectral IR detection and tracking system Sagem Vampir MB (IRAS)
- ESM System SLQ-750 made-up by a WB (Wideband) receiver and 2 HSFA (Superheterodyne) receivers
- Medium frequency hull ASDIC Thales UMS 4110CL
- Countermeasures
- RDF Jammers x 2
- Oto Melara SCLAR-H decoys launcher system for chaff and flares x 2
- Low Frequency Towed Array ASDIC
- Acoustic Decoy Launchers x 2
- Armament
- 2 x Otobreda 76mm Super Rapid naval guns
- 6 x 8-cell Sylver A50 VLS (fires 48 Aster 15/Aster 30 SAMs)
- 8 x 8 S/S Teseo Mk2/A missile launchers
- 2 x MU90 torpedo tubes
- 2 x SLAT anti torpedo system
- 2 x 25mm Myriad CIWS
- Aircraft Carried: 1 (capacity of 2) NH90 or EH101 helicopter (radar ENR, sonar Flash, LADT 11, Marte missiles or MU90 Impact torpedoes)
Unit Run[]
- ITS Andrea Doria (DM 553)
- ITS Caio Duilio (DM 554)
- ITS Arturo Riccardi (DM 555)
- ITS Angelo Iachino (DM 556)