The Type 43 Destroyer (also known as the Robertson-class) is a class of guided missile destroyer in service in the Royal Navy from the 1980s onwards.
Specifications
- Type: Destroyer
- Service Period: 1984-Present
- Characteristics
- Length: 566 ft 7 in (172.69 meters)
- Beam: 64 ft 4 in (19.61 meters)
- Draft: 29 ft 10 in (9.1 meters)
- Displacement: 7,570 tons
- Crew: 244 officers and men
- Endurance: Up to 45 days
- Power: 72,000 shp
- Propulsion: 4 Rolls-Royce Marine Trent gas turbines, 2 General Motors Model 265NV turbodiesel cruise engines, 8 Western Electric 9000-horsepower electric motors, RIM MilSys 420 integrated ship power and propulsion system, 2 shafts, controllable-pitch propellers
- Range: 7,400 nautical miles (8,520 mi, 13,710 km)
- Speed: 32.5 Knots (60.19 km/h)
- Sensor Suite:
- AWADS Combat Data System
- MFS-7000 Anti-Submarine Sonar System
- SCOT Satellite Communications System
- Type 162M Bottom Classification Sonar
- Type 184 Search Sonar
- Type 185 Underwater Phone
- Type 909 Sea Dart Fire Control Radar x 4
- Type 925 Seawolf fire Control Radar x 2
- Type 992Q 3D Surveillance Radar x 1
- Type 1022 Air Search Radar x 1
- Type 1047 Navigation Radar x 1
- Armament
- 2 x GWS.32 Garfish medium-range twin-arm missile launchers (96 missiles)
- 3 x GWS.25 Sea Wolf short-range missile launchers (18 missiles, 54 reloads)
- 2 x Mark 8B 115mm naval guns (500 rounds)
- 4 x Broadsword AShM launchers (16 missiles)
- 2 x Naval Defender Block II 35mm CIWS systems (10,000 rounds)
- 2 x GAU-19 12.7mm Miniguns (10,000 rounds)
- 2 x 12.75" triple torpedo tubes (6 torpedoes, 18 reloads)
- Aircraft Carried: 2 x AgustaWestland AW159 Lynx Wildcats
- Boats Carried: 2 x 5.5-meter RHIB inflatable boats
Unit Run
- HMS Robertson (D111)
- HMS Fraser (D112)
- HMS Anson (D113)
- HMS Howe (D114)
- HMS Jellicoe (D115)
- HMS Sommerville (D116)
- HMS Collingwood (D117)
- HMS Benbow (D118)