Alongside Fleet Base East

RAN website data
Hobart Class
Type Destroyer, Guided Missile (DDG)
Role Air Defence Surface Warfare Surveillance Undersea Warfare
Pennant D39
Home Port Fleet Base East
Builder Air Warfare Destroyer Alliance
Laid Down 6 September 2012 Launched 23 May 2015 Commissioned 23 September 2017
Displacement 7000 tonnes (full load)
Length 146.7 metres Beam 18.6 metres Draught 7.2 metres
Speed 28+ knots (top speed)
Range 4500 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)
Missiles Mk 41 Vertical Launch System (48 VLS Cells) RIM-66 Standard 2 missile RIM-162 Avolved Sea Sparrow missile Advanced Harpoon via 2 x quad launchers
Guns Mk 45 5-inch 62 Calibre Gun
Torpedoes MU90 torpedo
Other Armament
2 x 25mm M242 Bushmaster on Typhoon mounts
1 x Phalanx CIWS
Physical 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