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| - | The Hobart class Guided Missile Cruisers are American-designed, Australian-built AEGIS equipped Air Warfare Cruisers in service with the [[Royal Australian Navy]]. They are made by the Australian Submarine Corporation, in South Australia. The design is based on the American Arleigh Burke class Guided Missile Destroyers.
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| - | The ships are closer to cruisers in overall performance, having 128 Mk-41 VLS cells for Standard missiles, VL-ASROC, Tomahawk cruise missiles, and Evolved Sea Sparrow Missiles (rarely carried). The ship also carries 16 Harpoon missiles in quad launchers.
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| - | There are four in service:
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| - | *HMAS Hobart
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| - | *HMAS Brisbane
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| - | *HMAS Sydney
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| - | *HMAS Achilles
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| - | <center>[[Image:HMASHobart.jpg]]<br>'''HMAS Hobart underway'''</center>
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| - | =Specifications=
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| - | | Displacement
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| - | | 10,000 tonnes
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| - | | Length
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| - | | 544 ft (165.9 m)
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| - | | Machinery
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| - | | 4 General Electric LM2500 COGAG; two shafts, 100,000 total shaft horsepower (75 MW)
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| - | | Speed
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| - | | 30+ kts
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| - | | Armament
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| - | *One 5 inch (127mm/L62) Mk-45 Mod 4 (lightweight gun)
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| - | *One 20mm Phalanx CIWS
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| - | *One RIM-116 Rolling Airframe Missile launcher
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| - | *16 RGM-84 Harpoons in 4 quad launchers
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| - | *128 Cell VLS system (80 missiles fore, 48 aft)
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| - | **Usual combat load
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| - | ***80 Standard SM-2
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| - | ***32 BGM-109 Tomahawks
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| - | ***16 VL-ASROC
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| - | *2 Mk 32 Triple Torpedo Tubes for Mk 46 Torpedoes
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| - | | Aircraft
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| - | | 2 S-70B-2 Seahawk
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| - | [[Category:Military of Australia]]
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| - | [[Category:Technology]]
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Current revision as of 11:41, 7 March 2015
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