Almirante Brown Cass Destroyers Class Overview |
Dimensions, machinery and performance (general for class) |
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Length: |
413' |
Engines: |
2 Rolls Royce Tyne RM-1C cruise gas turbines 2 Rolls Royce Olympus TM-3B boost gas turbines |
Beam: |
45' 9" |
Combined gas and gas system (COGAG) |
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Draft: |
19' |
Shafts: |
2 |
Displacement: |
2,900 std. / 3,360 full |
SHP: |
Cruise turbines 10,200 Boost turbines 25,800 |
Speed: |
30.5 knots |
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Crew: |
224 |
Range: |
4,500 NM @ 18 knots |
Armament as built
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Number Carried
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Type
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Arrangement
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Maximum Range / Ceiling
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1 |
5"/54 (127mm) OTO-Melara compact |
single turret |
16,400 yards (9.3 miles) effective AA ceiling 23,000' @ 83° 18.25 lb. shell Rate of fire 40 RPM |
8 |
40mm/70 Bofors OTO-Breda |
4 twin turrets |
13,675 yards (7.7 miles) AA ceiling 28,550' 5.4 lb. HE shell Rate of fire 350-450 RPM |
8 |
MM40 Exocet missiles |
2 quad launchers |
N/A |
24 |
Aspide SAM missiles |
1 octuple launcher |
N/A |
6 |
12.7" (324mm) torpedoes |
2 triple launchers |
N/A |
9 |
Depth Charges |
1 rack |
N/A |
2 |
Helicopters |
Name |
Builder |
Launched |
Commissioned |
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Blohm & Voss Hamburg, Germany |
Mar. 28, 1981 |
Mar. 28, 1983 |
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Fate |
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Active
Homeport: Puerto Belgrano Naval Base, Argentina |
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Name |
Builder |
Launched |
Commissioned |
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La Argentina D-11 |
Blohm & Voss Hamburg, Germany |
Sept. 25, 1981 |
Aug. 4, 1983 |
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Fate |
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Active
Homeport: Puerto Belgrano Naval Base, Argentina |
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Name |
Builder |
Launched |
Commissioned |
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Blohm & Voss Hamburg, Germany |
Feb. 17, 1982 |
Dec. 1983 |
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Fate |
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Active
Homeport: Puerto Belgrano Naval Base, Argentina |
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Name |
Builder |
Launched |
Commissioned |
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Blohm & Voss Hamburg, Germany |
Mar. 9, 1982 |
June 21, 1984 |
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Fate |
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Active Homeport: Puerto Belgrano Naval Base, Argentina |
Page created Jan. 26, 2008 |