HMAS Darwin FFG-04

Type:
Guided Missile Frigate
Class:
Builder:
Todd Pacific Shipyards Corp.
Seattle, Washington, USA
Hull Number:
FFG-04
(laid down as US FFG-44)
Ordered:
N/A
Launched:
March 26, 1982
Keel Laid:
July 3, 1981
Commissioned:
July 21, 1984
Fate:
Active in commission as of 2007.
Homeport: Fleet Base East, HMAS Kuttabul.


Dimensions, Machinery and Performance

Length:
445'
Engines:
2 General Electric LM 2500 Gas Turbines
Beam:
47'
Boilers:
N/A
Draft:
16' (25' sonar)
Shafts:
1
Displacement:
4,100 full
SHP:
41,000
Speed:
29 knots
Crew:
210
Range:
4,500 NM @ 20 knots


Armament As Built
Number Carried
Type
Arrangement
Maximum Range / Ceiling
1
3"(76mm)/62
Mk 75 Rapid fire
OTO Melara

Single turret
21,870 yards / 12.4 miles
80 Rounds per minute

1
20mm Vulcan
Mk 15 Phalanx
CIWS

Single mount
6,000 yards (max effective 1,625)
3,000-4,500 Rounds per minute

4
.50 caliber machine guns
7,400 yards (max effective 2,600)
15,000 ceiling (max effective 5,000)

4
RGM-84 Harpoon
SSM Missiles
Mk 13 missile
launcher
67+ NM
Speed 540 MPH

36
SM-1MR SAM Missiles
Mk 13 missile
launcher
17 NM
65,000 Ceiling
Speed Mach 3.5

24
12.75" / 324mm
Mk 46 torpedoes
2 Mk-32
Triple launchers
8,000 yards
Speed 28+ knots

2
Helicopters




Builder's Data
Page published Jan. 31, 2007