D-39 Hobarth

Country:  Australia

Class, [Type]: Perth ( Mod. Charles F. Adams, [DDG]).

Builder: Defoe Shipbuilding Co, Bay City, Michigan, U.S.A.

Launch date: 09 January 1964.

Commission date: 18 December 1965.

Decommission date: 12 May 2000.

Displacement ( tons ): 3.380 standard, 4.618 at full load.

Dimensions ( metres ): 134,3 x 14,3 x 6,1

Main machinery: 2 x GE turbines, 4 x Foster Wheeler boilers ( 70.000 hp ), 2 x shafts.

Speed ( knots ): 30+.

Range ( miles ): 6.000 at 15 knots, 2.000 at 30 knots.

Complement: 325 ( 25 officers ).

Guns: 2 x 127mm/54 Mk42 Mod 10, 2 x GE/GD Vulcan Phalanx Mk15 CIWS 20mm, 6 x 12,7mm.

Missiles:  SSM: Not fitted with but launcher could fire RGM-84 Harpoon; SAM: 1 x Mk13 launcher for RIM-24 Tartar missiles, which were replaced later by SM-1MR Standard missiles.

Torpedoes: 2 x triple Mk32 Mod5 launchers ( 6 x 324mm Honeywell Mk46 Mod5 torpedoes ), 2 x Ikara launchers (removed in 1989).

Radar: Air Search: 1 x Hughes SPS-52C, 1 x Lockheed SPS-40C, E/F bands; Surface Search: 1 x Norden SPS-67V, G band; Fire Control: 2 x Raytheon SPG-51C (for Standard missiles), G/I bands, 2 x Western Electric SPG-53F (guns), I/J bands.

Sonar: Sangamo SQS 23KL, hull mounted, active, medium frequency.

Countermeasures: Decoys: 2 x Loral Hycor SRBOC Mk36 launchers ( chaff and flares ), SLQ 25 towed torpedo decoy; ESM/ECM: WLR-1H (intercept), ULQ-6 (jammer).