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Photographer:
Clyde Dickens [ View profile ]
Captured:
Dec 9, 2016
Location:
Sydney, Australia
Photo Category:
Frigates
Added:
Dec 9, 2016
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Image Resolution:
3,950 x 2,470

Description:

Sydney Harbour, off Rushcutters Bay, Cruising Yacht Club of Australia. 9 December 2016.
Vessel at 33°51'27.88" S 151°14'07.93" E

RAN website data:
Class; Adelaide Clas, Type Guided Missile Frigate (FFG)
Role Undersea Warfare, Over the Horizon Targeting, Surveillance, Boarding Support, Search and Rescue, Utility Operations
Pennant FFG 06, Home Port Fleet Base East
Builder, Australian Marine Eng (Consolidated), Williamstown, Launched 21 February 1992, Commissioned 11 December 1993
Displacement 4,267 tonnes, Length 138.1 metres, Beam 13.7 metres, Draught 4.5 metres
Performance: Speed 29 knots, Range 4,500 nautical miles
Complement: Crew 184,
Propulsion Machinery
2 GE LM 2500 gas turbines
2 auxiliary electric retractable propulsors SM-2 Block IIIA
Missiles
Harpoon Block 2
Standard SM-2 Block IIIA
Mk 41 VLS launcher
Guns
1 x OTO Melara 3 in (76 mm)/62 US Mk 75
1 x 20 mm Mk 15 Vulcan Phalanx anti-missile system
6 x 12.7 mm MGs
2 x Rafael Mini-Typhoon 12.7 mm remote-controlled guns (for selected deployments).
Torpedoes 6 x Mk 32 (2 triple) tubes
Physical Countermeasures
4 x Loral Hycor SRBOC Mk 36 or TERMA SKWS
2 x Rafael long-range chaff rocket launchers
LESCUT torpedo countermeasures
Electronic Countermeasures
Elbit EA-2118 jammer
Rafael C-Pearl
Radars
Raytheon SPS-49A(V)1
ISC Cardion SPS-55
Lockheed SPG-60
Sperry Mk 92 Mod 12
Sonars
Thales Spherion (TMS 4131)
Petrel (TMS 5424) mine avoidance
Albatros (TMS 4350) towed-array torpedo warning system
Combat Data Systems ADACS. OE-2 SATCOM; Link 11. Link 16.
Weapon Control Systems
Sperry Mk 92 Mod 12 gun and missile control
Radamec 2500 optronic director with TV, laser and IR imager
Helicopters
2 x Sikorsky S-70B-2 Seahawks or 1 x Seahawk and 1 x Squirrel

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Warren Pye

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Aaron Fox

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