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HMAS HOBART (III) (DDG39) arrives in the port of Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, for the first time ever, on Friday, 9 February 2018.
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Namesake: City of Hobart, Tasmania
Ordered: 4 October 2007
Builder:
Navantia (designer)
AWD Alliance (project coordinator)
ASC (primary shipbuilder)
Forgacs Group (now Forgacs Marine and Defence) and BAE Systems Australia (module builders)
Laid down: 6 September 2012
Launched: 23 May 2015
Acquired: 16 June 2017
Commissioned: 23 September 2017
Motto: Grow with Strength
Honours and awards:
Nine inherited battle honours
Status: Active
General characteristics (as designed)
Type: Air warfare destroyer
Displacement: 6,250 tonnes (6,150 long tons; 6,890 short tons) full load
Length: 147.2 metres (483ft)
Beam: 18.6 metres (61ft) maximum
Draught: 5.17 metres (17.0ft)
Propulsion:
Combined diesel or gas (CODOG) arrangement
2 × General Electric Marine model 7LM2500-SA-MLG38 gas turbines, 17,500 kilowatts (23,500hp) each
2 × Caterpillar 3616 diesel engines, 5,650 kilowatts (7,580hp) each
2 × controllable pitch propellers
Speed: In excess +28 knots (52km/h; 32mph)
Range: Over 5,000 nautical miles (9,300km; 5,800mi) at 18 knots (33km/h; 21mph)
Complement:
186 + 16 aircrew
Accommodation for 234
Sensors and processing systems:
Aegis combat system
Lockheed Martin AN/SPY-1D(V) S-band radar
Northrop Grumman AN/SPQ-9B X-band pulse Doppler horizon search radar
Raytheon Mark 99 fire-control system with two continuous wave illuminating radars
2 × L-3 Communications SAM Electronics X-band navigation radars
Ultra Electronics Sonar Systems' Integrated Sonar System
Ultra Electronics Series 2500 electro-optical director
Sagem VAMPIR IR search and track system
Rafael Toplite stabilised target acquisition sights
Electronic warfare and decoys:
ITT EDO Reconnaissance and Surveillance Systems ES-3701 ESM radar
SwRI MBS-567A communications ESM system
Ultra Electronics Avalon Systems multi-purpose digital receiver
Jenkins Engineering Defence Systems low-band receiver
4 × Nulka decoy launchers
4 × 6-tube multi-purpose decoy launchers
Armament:
48-cell Mark 41 Vertical Launch System
RIM-66 Standard 2 missile
RIM-162 Evolved Sea Sparrow missile
2 × 4-canister Harpoon missile launchers
1 × Mark 45 Mod 4 5-inch gun
2 × Mark 32 Mod 9 two-tube torpedo launchers
Eurotorp MU90 torpedoes
1 × Phalanx CIWS
2 × 25mm M242 Bushmaster autocannons in Typhoon mounts
Aircraft carried: 1 x MH-60R Seahawk
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