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Motto 'Resurgent'
Callsign VKDA
Class & type: Adelaide-class guided missile frigate
Displacement: 4,100 tons
Length: 138.1 m (453 ft) overall
Beam: 13.7 m (45 ft)
Draught: 7.5 m (25 ft)
Propulsion: 2 × General Electric LM2500 gas turbines, 41,000 horsepower (31,000 kW), 1 shaft
2 × 650-horsepower (480 kW) auxiliary propulsors
Speed: 29 knots (54 km/h; 33 mph)
Range: 4,500 nautical miles (8,300 km; 5,200 mi) at 20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph)
Complement: 184 (including 15 officers, not including aircrew)
Sensors and
processing systems: AN/SPS-49 air search radar
AN/SPS-55 surface search and navigation radar
SPG-60 fire control radar (Mark 92 fire control system)
AN/SQS-56 hull-mounted sonar
Armament: 1 × Mark 13 Missile Launcher for Harpoon and Standard missiles
1 × 8-cell Mark 41 VLS with Evolved Sea Sparrow missiles
2 × Mark 32 torpedo tubes
1 × OTO Melara 76 mm naval gun
1 × 20 mm Phalanx CIWS
Up to 6 x 12.7-millimetre (0.50 in) machine guns
2 × M2HB .50 calibre Mini Typhoons (fitted as required)
Aircraft carried: 2 helicopters
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