This class of destroyer was designed around the powerful GWS30 Sea Dart weapons system to provide the fleet with medium-range air defence
Built by Camel Laird, laid down in 1978, Launched in1980, in service 1982.
[b]Dimensions[/b]
Length - 124.6m
Beam 14.3m
Draught - 4.8m
Tonnes - 4,820
[b]Machinery[/b]
COGOG gas turbines
Cruise x 2 - 8mw
Max speed x 2 - 36mw
Shafts - 2
Speed - 30 knots
Generators - 4 x 1mw
[b]Compliment[/b]
287 (312 max) including up to 10 Royal Marines
[b]Weapons systems[/b]
Missiles - Sea Dart
Guns - 1 x 114 mm / 2 x 20mm
CIWS - 2 x Phalanx
Decoy systems - Seagnat
Helicopters - 1 x Lynx Mk3/8
Air Weapons - Sting Ray Torpedo and Sea Skua ASM.
[b]Sensors[/b]
Radar - 1 x 1022 search / 1 x 996 search / 2 x 909i / 1 x 1007 & 1008 nav
ESM - UAA2 or UAT
Sonar - 2016/2050
Comms - SCOT1c. HF. / Data links. Inmarsat.
