Class: Hobart Class
Type: Guided Missile Destroyer (DDG)
Role: Air Defence / Surface Warfare / Surveillance / Undersea Warfare
Pennant D41
International: Callsign VKLC
Motto: We Aim At Higher Things
Builder: Air Warfare Destroyer Alliance
Laid Down: 3 February 2014
Launched: 15 December 2016, launched by Mrs Robyn Shackleton
Dimensions and displacement
Displacement: 7,000 tonnes (full load)
Length 146.7 metres
Beam 18.6 metres
Draught 7.2 metres
Performance:
Speed: 28+ knots (top speed)
Range 4,500 nautical miles (18 knots)
Complement: crew approx. 180
Propulsion Machinery:
2 x General Electric Marine model 7LM2500-SA-MLG38 gas turbines, 17,500 kilowatts (23,500 hp) each
2 x Caterpillar Bravo 16 V Bravo diesel engines, 5,650 kilowatts (7,580 hp) each
Armament and missiles:
Mk 41 Vertical Launch System (48 VLS Cells)
RIM-66 Standard 2 missiles
Advanced Harpoon via 2 x quad launchers
Guns Mk 45 5" 62 calibre gun
Torpedoes MU90 torpedos
Other Armament:
2 x 25mm M242 Bushmaster on Typhoon mounts
1 x Phalanx CIWS
Countermeasures: NULKA Active Missile Decoy system
Radars:
AN/SPY-1D (V) Phased Array Radar
Horizon Search Radar
Sonars Integrated Sonar System incorporating a Hull Mounted and towed array sonar
Combat Data Systems: Aegis (Baseline 7.1)
Helicopters 1 x MH-60R Seahawk
Awards and inherited Battle Honours:
INDIAN OCEAN 1917
VIETNAM 1969 - 71
KUWAIT 1991