The Fraser-class guided missile destroyers (or CDX-I) are a class of four guided missile destroyers under construction at the MIL-Davie Shipyards in Sorel and Lauzon, Quebec. They are named after rivers of Canada. The River-class is intended to replace the first four Iroquois-class destroyers with the subsequent Columbia-class replacing the latter six.
Specifications[]
- Type: Guided Missile Destroyer
- Service Period 2003-Present
- Characteristics:
- Length: 520 feet (158.5 meters)
- Beam: 66 feet (20.12 meters)
- Draft: 21 feet (6.4 meters)
- Displacement: 8,020 tons (Standard); 10,000 tons (Full Load)
- Crew: 300
- Propulsion:
- 4 x Rolls-Royce WR-21 gas turbines
- RIM MilSys 420 integrated ship power and propulsion system
- 2 x General Motors Model 265 turbodiesel cruise engines
- 2 x Vektris Engineering cross-connect gearboxes
- 2 x Escher Wyss controllable pitch propellers
- 4 x General Motors/Western Electric 2.3 MW electric generators
- 2 x shafts
- Range: 7,600 nautical miles (14,075 kilometers) at 15 knots (27.78 km/h)
- Speed: 34.5 knots (63.9 km/h)
- Sensor Suite:
- SAMPSON multi-function air tracking RDF (Type 1045)
- S1850M 3-D air surveillance RDF (Type 1046)
- Raytheon I-band RDF (Type 1047) x 2
- Raytheon E/F-band RDF (Type 1048) x 1
- Raytheon Pathfinder Mark II Ka-band navigation RDF
- Signaal SPG-503 STIR 1.8 Fire Control RDF
- AN/SQS-510 Hull-mounted variable depth ASDIC system
- AN/SQR-501 CANTASS Passive towed array ASDIC
- Ultra Electronics Series 2500 Electro-Optical Gun Control System (EOGCS)
- Ultra Electronics SML Technologies RDF tracking system
- Countermeasures:
- Rheinmetall Multi Ammunition Softkill System (MASS)
- Armament:
- 2 x BL 6.1"/52-caliber Mk.IV naval gun (1x2)
- 2 x 64-cell VLS (fires Thunderbolt AAMs, GWS.26 Sea Wolf, GWS.31 Sea Dart II, VL-Orca ASW rockets, and Storm Wind cruise missiles)
- 2 x 4-cannister Broadsword AShM Launchers
- 6 x Diemaco C25 14.5mm machine guns
- 2 x Diemaco 30mm Avenger CIWS
- 2 x 12.75" triple fire torpedo tubes
- Aircraft Carried: 2 x CH-148 Cyclone maritime helicopters
- Aviation Facilities: 1 x Helipad equipped with Beartrap system with hangar for two large helicopters
Unit Run[]
- HMCS Fraser (DM 290)
- HMCS Niagara (DM 291)
- HMCS Severn (DM 292)
- HMCS Chaudière (DM 293)