ANZAC Class Frigate

[Crag_r]

Well lets get the ball rolling with modern ships;

 

ANZAC CLASS FRIGATE;

 

 

The Anzac class (also identified as the ANZAC class and the MEKO 200 ANZ type) is a ship class of ten frigates; eight operated by the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) and two operated by the Royal New Zealand Navy (RNZN). During the 1980s, the RAN began plans to replace the River class destroyer escorts with a mid-capability patrol frigate, and settled on the idea of modifying a proven foreign design for Australian conditions.

 

Type: Frigate

 

Displacement: 3,600 t (3,500 long tons; 4,000 short tons) full load displacement

 

Length: 109 m (358 ft) waterline length

118 m (387 ft) length overall

 

Beam: 14.8 m (49 ft)

 

Draught: 4.35 m (14.3 ft) at full load

 

Propulsion: Combined Diesel or Gas (CODOG):

1 x General Electric LM2500-30 gas turbine, 30,172 hp (22,499 kW)

2 x MTU 12V1163 TB83 diesel engines, 8,840 hp (6,590 kW) each

2 x controllable-pitch propellers

 

Speed: 27 knots (50 km/h; 31 mph)

 

Range: 6,000 nautical miles (11,000 km; 6,900 mi) at 18 knots (33 km/h; 21 mph)

 

Complement: 22 officers and 141 sailors

 

Sensors and processing systems:

Radar: Raytheon SPS-49(V)8 ANZ aerial search and long-range surveillance.

CelsiusTech 9LV 453 Target Indication Radar for air and surface search,

Atlas Elektronik 9600 ARPA navigational,

CelsiusTech 9LV 453 unit for fire control

Sonar: ThomsonSintra Spherion B hull-mounted bow sonar

Petrel Mine and Obstacle Avoidance Sonar system Fitted for but not with towed-array sonar

Other: Cossor AIMS Mark XII identification-friend-or-foe system

 

Electronic warfare and decoys: Mark 36 SRBOC launchers SLQ-25A towed torpedo decoy Nulka decoy launchers Rascal Thorn modified Sceptre-A electronic support measures Telefunken PST-1720 Telegon 10 radar intercept unit

 

Armament: Fitted:

1 x 5-inch 54 calibre Mark 45 Mod 2 dual purpose gun

1 x 8-cell Mark 41 Mod 5 vertical launch system, firing RIM-7 Sea Sparrow

2 x 12.7-millimetre (0.50 in) machine guns

2 x Mark 32 3-tube torpedo launchers, firing Mark 46 torpedoes

1 x Vulcan Phalanx CIWS (RNZN only)

Fitted for but not with:

1 x close-in weapons system (RAN only)

2 x 4-canister Harpoon missile launchers

2nd Mark 41 VLS

 

Aircraft carried: 1 helicopter: Sikorsky S-70B-2 Seahawk (RAN), Westland Wasp (RNZN)

 

 

Royal Australian Navy

 

HMAS Anzac

HMAS Arunta

HMAS Warramunga

HMAS Stuart

HMAS Parramatta

HMAS Ballarat

HMAS Toowoomba

HMAS Perth

 

Royal New Zealand Navy

HMNZS Te Kaha

HMNZS Te Mana

 

 

Operational History;

INTERFET

Operation Iraqi Freedom

Multinational Interception Force

Battle of Al Faw

 

Links;

http://en.wikipedia....c_class_frigate

http://www.navy.gov.au/Anzac_Class

 

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[Madiba127]

we no longer operate wasps from the Te Mana and Te Kaka but instead use the Seasprite

 

The first of the Royal New Zealand Navy's (RNZN) ANZAC class frigates, TE KAHA was launched in Melbourne on 22 July 1995, and commissioned in Auckland exactly two years later.

TE MANA is the RNZN's second ANZAC Class Frigate. Launched on 10 May 1997, she was fitted out in Melbourne and commissioned in her home port of Tauranga on 10 December 1999.

 

The SH-2G (NZ) Seasprite helicopters presently operate from TE MANA and TE KAHA, embarked with aircrew from the RNZN and maintainers from the RNZAF.  Since 2007 they have also operated off the two new Offshore Patrol Vessels and the Multi Role Vessel HMNZS CANTERBURY.

 

Compared to the Navy's previous Leander Class frigates, the crew numbers on the ANZACs are relatively low, due to many more automated systems

[Crag_r]

Ah my apologies, im quite familiar with the Australian use of them but not so much the Kiwi.

 

I also realized all the pics were of RAN ships, here is a RNZN one;

[klentz]

what a waste of tax payers money, also know as the most informed target in the sea, they know who shot at them, where it will hit, when it will hit, where i came from but can't do anything back, also built to minium specs to save money.

[Crag_r]

klentz, on 15 December 2012 - 04:56 PM, said:

what a waste of tax payers money, also know as the most informed target in the sea, they know who shot at them, where it will hit, when it will hit, where i came from but can't do anything back, also built to minium specs to save money.

How do you mean?

[nixxxie]

Probably that lack of Harpoons. Sadly, they don't have beyond the horizon capability, beside helis.

[Crag_r]

They do carry only 8 of them i suppose, however they are designed provide and anti sub and Air role, leaving surface engagements up to the Missile laden Adelaide class.

[nixxxie]

You listed them as "fitted for but not with". If they were retrofitted with harpoons then ok.

[Crag_r]

nixxxie, on 16 December 2012 - 10:17 PM, said:

You listed them as "fitted for but not with". If they were retrofitted with harpoons then ok.

Yeah Wiki is a little odd on that one, all the Australian ones have them and carry them, its only the New Zealand ones that do not carry the harpoons.