The Durand de la Penne-class destroyers are four guided missile destroyers operated by the Regia Marina, the Italian navy. The design is an updated version of the Audace-class destroyers, but these ships are larger, have CODOG machinery and modern sensors.
Specifications[]
- Type: Guided Missile Destroyer
- Service Period: 1993-Present
- Characteristics:
- Length: 484 feet 7 inches (147.7 meters)
- Beam: 52 feet 10 inches (16.1 meters)
- Draught: 16 feet 5 inches (5 meters)
- Displacement: 4,500 tons (Standard); 5,400 tons (Full Load)
- Crew: 380
- Propulsion:
- 2 × General Electric/Avio LM2500 gas turbines providing 55,000 hp
- 2 × Grandi Motori Trieste BL-230-20-DVM diesels providing 12,600 hp
- Range: 7,000 nautical miles (12,964 kilometers) at 18 knots (33.34 km/h)
- Speed: 32 knots (59.26 km/h)
- Sensor Suite:
- AESN MM/SPS-768 RDF x 1
- SPS-52C 3D RDF x 1
- medium range AESN MM/SPS-774 x 1
- surface RDF AMS MM/SPS-702 x 1
- Navigation RDF SMA MM/SPN-703 x 1
- AESN Orion TRN-30X (MM/SPG-76) x 4
- ASDIC system DE-1164/1167 x 1
- ECM system Elettronica NETTUNO
- TACAN URN-25 x 1
- SADOC-2 combat system x 1
- Armament:
- 1 x Otobreda 127mm/L55 Compact naval gun
- 2 x Oto Melara 76mm/L64 Super Rapido naval guns
- 1 x Octuple launcher for Selenia Aspide AAMs
- 1 x GWS.31 Sea Dart Mk.II launcher (fires forty GWS.31 Sea Dart Mk.II AAMs)
- 8 x Otomat Mk.II SSMs
- 4 x Milas ASW missiles
- 2 x 12.75" triple torpedo launchers
- Aircraft Carried: 2 x NH90s or 1 x Agusta-Westland Merlin helicopter
- Aviation Facilities: Helicopter Deck and Double Hangar
Ships[]
- RM Luigi Durand de la Penne (DM 560)
- RM Francesco Mimbelli (DM 561)
- RM Giuseppe Fioravanzo (DM 562)
- RM Junio Valerio Borghese (DM 563)