Hobart class destroyer

The Hobart-class guided missile destroyers are a class of destroyers in service in the Royal Australian Navy from 2007 onwards.

Specifications

• Type: Guided Missile Destroyer
• Service Period: 2007-
• Characteristics:
  • Length: 510 feet (155.45 meters)
  • Beam: 61 feet (18.6 meters)
  • Draft: 17 feet (5.18 meters)
  • Displacement: 7,280 tons
• Crew: 320
• Propulsion: 4 x WR-21 gas turbines, 2 x Caterpillar Bravo 16 V Bravo diesel engines, 5,650 kilowatts (7,580 hp) each, 2 x controllable pitch propellers
• Range: 5,500 nautical miles (10,186 kilometers) at 18 knots (33.34 km/h)
• Speed: 32.7 knots (60.56 km/h)
• Sensor Suite:
  • Plessey MIDAS Combat System
  • Thales S1850M 3D Air Search RDF
  • Raytheon Type 1047 I-Band RDF
  • Raytheon Type 1048 E/F-Band RDF
  • Thales Nederland STIR 1.8 Fire Control RDF
  • Raytheon Mk.99 Fire Control System
  • Kelvin Hughes Type 1007 I-Band Navigation RDF
  • Ultra Electronics Sonar Systems' Integrated ASDIC System
  • Ultra Electronics Series 2500 electro-optical director
  • Sagem VAMPIR IR search and track system
  • Rafael Toplite stabilised target acquisition sights
• Countermeasures:
  • Elta M275 Electronic Warfare Suite
  • ITT EDO Reconnaissance and Surveillance Systems ES-3701 ESM RDF
  • SwRI MBS-567A communications ESM system
  • Ultra Electronics Avalon Systems multipurpose digital receiver
  • Jenkins Engineering Defence Systems low-band receiver
  • Rheinmetall Multi Ammunition Softkill System
  • 4 x Nulka decoy launchers
  • 4 x 6-tube multipurpose decoy launchers
• Armament:
  • 2 x 15mm naval guns
  • 2 x 64-cell VLS (fires GWS.27 Sea Wolf, GWS.31 Sea Dart, VL-Ikara)
  • 2 x 4-cannister Broadsword AShM Launchers)
  • 2 x Oerlikon Millennium 35mm naval gun
  • 2 x 12.75" triple torpedo tubes
  • 2 x 30mm Goalkeeper CIWS
• Aircraft Carried: 1 x NHIndustries NH90 maritime helicopter
• Aviation Facilities: hangar, flight deck

Unit Run

Royal Australian Navy

• HMAS Hobart (DM 52)
• HMAS Mackay (DM 53)
• HMAS Rockhampton (DM 54)
• HMAS Alice Springs (DM 55)
• HMAS Liverpool (DM 56)
• HMAS Devonport (DM 57)
• HMAS Broken Hill (DM 58)
• HMAS Cairns (DM 59)
• HMAS Gladstone (DM 60)
• HMAS Palmerston (DM 61)
• HMAS Rockingham (DM 62)
• HMAS Carpentaria (DM 63)

Royal New Zealand Navy

• HMNZS Stalwart (DM 18)
• HMNZS Redoubtable (DM 19)
• HMNZS Valiant (DM 20)