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Type 23 Frigate
General characteristics
Class and type: Frigate
Displacement: 4,900 tonnes, standard[1]
Length: 133 m (436 ft 4 in)
Beam: 16.1 m (52 ft 10 in)
Draught: 7.3 m (23 ft 9 in)
Propulsion: CODLAG with four 1510 kW (2,025 shp) Paxman Valenta 12CM diesel generators powering two GEC electric motors delivering 2980kW (4000 shp) and two Rolls-Royce Spey SM1A replaced by updated SM1C delivering 23,190 kW (31,100 shp) to two shafts
Speed: 28 knots, HMS Sutherland achieved 34.4 knots during high-speed trials (November 2008)
Range: 14,485 km (9,000 miles) at 15 knots
Complement: 185
Electronic warfare
and decoys:
4 x 6-barrel Seagnat decoy launchers
DFL2/3 offboard decoys
Armament:
Anti-air missiles;
32 cell Sea Wolf air-defence GWS.26 VLS for 32;
Sea Wolf missiles (range 1-13 km)
Anti-ship missiles;
2× quadruple Harpoon launchers.
Anti-submarine torpedoes;
2× twin 12.75 in (324 mm) tubes for Stingray ASW torpedoes.
Guns;
1× BAE 4.5 inch Mk8 gun
2× 30mm DS30M automated guns, or, 2× 30mm DS30B guns
2× Miniguns
4× General-purpose machine guns
Aircraft carried: 1×Lynx HMA8, armed with;
4× Sea Skua anti ship missiles, or
2× anti submarine torpedoes
or
1×Westland Merlin HM1, armed with;
4× anti submarine torpedoes
or
SH-32 SeaCougar
2x anti submarine Torpedoes
2x AM39 block II Anti-ship misile