Phobos-class destroyer
 HHS Phobos
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| Class overview | |
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| Name: | Phobos-class destroyer |
| Builders: | Vickers Armstrong Arthurista |
| Operators: | Commonwealth Navy |
| Preceded by: | Pendragon-class destroyer, Canopus-class cruiser |
| Succeeded by: | Type-44 destroyer |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | Destroyer |
| Displacement: | 5,000 tonnes full load |
| Length: | 146.5m waterline |
| Beam: | 14.8m |
| Draught: | 6.4m |
| Propulsion: | Two shaft COGOG, 2x Rollers Engineering Olympus high speed gas turbines (54,000shp), 2x Rollers Wayfarer cruise turbines (9,700shp) |
| Speed: | 30kn (dash), 18kn (cruise) |
| Range: | 10,650km at 18kn |
| Sensors and processing systems: |
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| Armour: | steel shrapnel sheets, kevlar spall liners |
| Aircraft carried: | 2 x Lynx |
The Phobos-class is a class of twelve guided missile destroyer design of the Commonwealth Navy, commissioned from 1976-1985. Intended to provide carrier task forces and merchant convoys with area air defence and anti-submarine protection, its designers combined a twin-rail Sea Dart launcher for area defence, guns of various calibre for short-range defence and a hangar for ASW helicopters. A surface warfare package with eight ACM-2 Renove sea-skimmer missiles was later added. The Phobos design, with its broad beam and high freeboard, possessed excellent sea-keeping qualities, even in tropical storms. After initial issues with the launchers' loading gates were ironed out, these ships soon proved popular with the admiralty due to their multirole capability, ease of maintenance, as well as toughness and reliability in adverse conditions.