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The USS Oliver Hazard Perry (FFG-7) in August 1979, underway in the Great Lakes of North America. |
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| Class overview | |
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| Name: | Oliver Hazard Perry |
| Builders: | Bath Iron Works Todd Pacific Shipyards San Pedro Todd Pacific Shipyards Seattle Australian Marine Engineering Consolidated Bazan China Shipbuilding |
| Operators: | United States Navy Royal Australian Navy Armada Española Republic of China Navy Pakistan Navy Royal Bahrain Naval Force Egyptian Navy Polish Navy Turkish Navy |
| Preceded by: | Brooke-class frigate |
| Succeeded by: | Freedom-class littoral combat ship Independence-class littoral combat ship |
| Subclasses: | Adelaide-class (Australia) Santa María-class (Spain) Cheng Kung-class (Taiwan) |
| Built: | 1975–2004 |
| In commission: | 1977–Present |
| Completed: | 71 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | Frigate |
| Displacement: | 4,100 long tons (4,200 t) full load |
| Length: | 408 ft (124 m) waterline, 445 ft (136 m) overall, 453 ft (138 m) for "long-hull" frigates |
| Beam: | 45 ft (14 m) |
| Draft: | 22 ft (6.7 m) |
| Propulsion: | 2 × General Electric LM2500-30 gas turbines generating 41,000 shp (31 MW) through a single shaft and variable pitch propeller 2 × Auxiliary Propulsion Units, 350 hp (260 kW) retractable electric azimuth thrusters for maneuvering and docking. |
| Speed: | over 29 knots (54 km/h) |
| Range: | 4,500 nmi (8,300 km; 5,200 mi) at 20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph) |
| Complement: | 176 |
| Sensors and processing systems: |
Radar: AN/SPS-49, AN/SPS-55, Mk 92 fire control system Sonar: SQS-56, SQR-19 Towed Array |
| Electronic warfare & decoys: |
SLQ-32(V)2, Flight III with sidekick, Mark 36 SRBOC AN/SLQ-25 Nixie |
| Armament: | One single-arm Mk 13 Missile Launcher with a 40-missile magazine that contains SM-1MR anti-aircraft guided missiles and Harpoon anti-ship missiles. Removed from the U.S. Navy ships starting in 2003, due to the retirement of the SM-1 missile from American service Mk 38 Mod 2 Naval Gun Systems installed on platforms over the removed MK 13 launchers Two triple Mark 32 Anti-submarine warfare torpedo tubes with Mark 46 or Mark 50 anti-submarine warfare torpedoes One OTO Melara 76 mm/62 caliber naval gun One 20 mm Phalanx CIWS rapid-fire cannon Eight Hsiung Feng II SSM or four HF-2 and 4 HF-3 supersonic AShM, plus 2 Bofors 40mm/L70 guns (on Taiwanese vessels only) |
| Aircraft carried: | Two LAMPS multi-purpose helicopters (the SH-2 Seasprite LAMPS I on the short-hulled ships or the SH-60 Seahawk LAMPS III on the long-hulled ships) |