F45 HMAS Murrumbidgee
Specifications
- Complement: 224
Displacement
- Light – 3,100 tonnes
- Full Load – 4,185 tonnes
Dimensions
- Length –134 metres
- Beam – 14.5 metres
- Draught- 7.3 metres
Propulsion
- Shafts – 2
- Engines – 4 x Ferguson 12V786-E Diesels
- Total Power – 32,500bhp
- Speed – 32 knots
- Range – 8,000nm @ 15 knots
Armament
- Guns – 1 x FMC Mk42 127mm, 2 x 40mm Bofors
- SAM Launchers – 2 x Short Brothers Seacat GWS 22 Launchers
- ASW Launchers – 1 x Ikara Launcher
- Torpedos – 2 x triple Mk32 Tubes
Decoys
- 2 x Loral Hycor SRBOC Mk36 (6 barrel)
Radars
- Air Search/Fire Control – Lockheed AN/SPS-40D
- Fire Control (Gun Control) – Signal WM-28
- Surface Search - 1 x Norden AN/SPS-67
- Navigation - 1 x Kelvin Hughes 1006
Sonar
- 1 x Hughes SQS-53C (bow mounted)
Aircraft
- 1 x Westland SK-50A ASW Helicopter