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Formidable-class guided missile cruiserWarning: Display title "Formidable-class" overrides earlier display title "Formidable-class guided missile cruiser".
Class overview
Name: Formidable-class guided missile cruiser
Builders:
Operators: Royal Axiomian Navy
Preceded by: Valiant-class
Succeeded by: Sovereign-class
Cost: $1.26 billion per unit (including R&D costs)
Built: 1988-2001
In service: 1991-present
Planned: 6
Completed: 6
Active: 6
Laid up: 0
General characteristics
Type: Aegis guided missile cruiser
Displacement: 10,700 tonnes (full)
Length: 173 m (567 ft)
Beam: Overall: 16.8 m (55 ft)
Draft: 10.2 m (34 ft)
Installed power: 4 × Tosar Industries NT140 gas turbine engines
Propulsion:
  • 2 × controllable-reversible pitch propellers
  • 2 × rudders
Speed: 32.5 knots (60 km/h)
Range: 6,000 nautical miles (11,000 km)
Capacity: 400
Complement: 30 officers and 300 enlisted
Sensors and
processing systems:
AN/SPY-1D(V) multi-function radar
Armament:
  • 128-cell (2×64) Mk.41 VLS
    • RIM-66M-5 Standard SM-2MR Block IIIB
    • RIM-156A SM-2ER Block IV
    • RIM-161 SM-3
    • RIM-162A ESSM
    • RIM-174A Standard ERAM (SM-6)
    • BGM-196 LRCM (Long Range Cruise Missile)
    • RUM-198 ASROC-X
  • 8 (2×4) ASM-192 TASM missiles (Transonic Anti-ship Missile)
  • 2 × Mk.56 LAST (Lightweight Anti-submarine Torpedo) triple torpedo tubes (324 mm)
  • 2 × 20 mm Phalanx CIWS
  • 2 × 5 in (127 mm)/62 caliber Mark 45 lightweight gun
  • 2~4 x M2 .50-caliber (12.7 mm) machine guns
Armor: Limited Kevlar splinter protection in critical areas
Aircraft carried: 2 MH-60R Seahawks (LAMPS III)
Aviation facilities: Hangar and helicopter pad