Ships in class:
HMAS HOBART DDG39
HMAS BRISBANE DDG41
HMAS SYDNEY DDG42
Class overview:
Name: Hobart class
Builders: Navantia (designer)
AWD Alliance (project coordinator), ASC (primary shipbuilder)
Forgacs Group and BAE Systems Australia (module builders)
Operators: Royal Australian Navy
Preceded by: Perth-class destroyer and Adelaide-class frigate
Cost: A$8 billion for 3 ships (original contract cost)
Built: 2009–present
Planned: 3
Active: 1
General characteristics (as designed)
Type: Air warfare destroyer
Displacement: 7,000 tonnes (6,900 long tons; 7,700 short tons) full load
Length: 147.2metres (483ft)
Beam: 18.6metres (61 ft) maximum
Draught: 5.17metres (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 Bravo 16 V Bravo diesel engines, 5,650kilowatts (7,580hp) each
2 × controllable pitch propellers
Speed: Over 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, hull mounted sonar and towed sonar
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 multipurpose digital receiver
Jenkins Engineering Defence Systems low-band receiver
4 × Nulka decoy launchers
4 × 6-tube multipurpose 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