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Guided missile destroyer HMS Defender (D36)‎

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Classification

Ship class:
Daring-class destroyer (Type 45 destroyer)
Type:
Guided missile destroyer

Basic information

Operator:
Royal NavyRoyal Navy
Country of build:
Builder:
BAE Systems Surface Ships
Ordered:
Laid down:
Launched:
Commissioned (service):
Status:
Active

Ship measurements

Displacement:
8,500 t
Length:
152.4 m
Beam:
21.2 m
Draft:
7.4 m

Machine

Propulsion:
  • 2 * Rolls-Royce WR-21 gas turbines, 21.5 MW (28,800 shp) each
  • 2 * Wärtsilä 12V200 diesel generators, 2 MW (2,700 shp) each
  • 2 shafts integrated electric propulsion with
  • 2 * Converteam electric motors, 20 MW (27,000 shp) each
Speed:
30 knots
Range:
7,000 nautical miles (13,000 km) at 18 kn (33 km/h)

Personnel

Complement:
191

Combat assets

Electronics:
  • SAMPSON multi-function air tracking radar (Type 1045)
  • S1850M 3-D air surveillance radar (Type 1046)
  • Raytheon Integrated Bridge and Navigation System
  • 2 * Raytheon AHRS INS (MINS 2)
  • 2 * Raytheon I-band Radar (Type 1047)
  • 1 * Raytheon E/F-band Radar (Type 1048)
  • Ultra Electronics Series 2500 Electro-Optical Gun Control System (EOGCS)
  • Ultra Electronics SML Technologies radar tracking system
  • Ultra Electronics/EDO MFS-7000 sonar
  • UAT Mod 2.0 (2.1 planned)
  • AN/SSQ-130 Ship Signal Exploitation Equipment (SSEE) Increment F cryptologic exploitation system
  • Seagnat
  • Naval Decoy IDS300
  • Surface Ship Torpedo Defence
Armament:
  • Sea Viper air defence system with a 48-cell Sylver Vertical Launching System for a mix of Aster 15 short range and Aster 30 long range missiles
  • Up to 2 * quad Harpoon anti-ship missile launchers
  • 1 * BAE 4.5 inch Mk 8 naval gun
  • 2 * Oerlikon 30 mm guns
  • 2 * 20mm Phalanx CIWS
  • 2 * Miniguns
  • 6 * 7.62mm General Purpose Machine Guns
Aircraft:
  • 1–2 * Lynx Wildcat, armed with:
  • 4 * anti ship missiles, or
  • 2 * anti submarine torpedoes or
  • 1 * Westland Merlin, armed with:
  • 4 * anti-submarine torpedoes

HMS Defender is the fifth of the Type 45 or Daring-class air-defence destroyers built for the Royal Navy. She is the eighth ship to bear the name. Construction of Defender began in 2006, and she was launched in 2009. The ship completed her first sea trials in October and November 2011, and was commissioned during March 2013.

Defender's construction began at the BAE Systems Naval Ships (now part of BAE Systems Surface Ships) yard at Govan on the River Clyde in July 2006. The launch date was 21 October 2009.

On 21 October 2011, Defender left Scotstoun shipyard in Glasgow on her maiden voyage exactly two years to the day after she was launched, to conduct her first stage of sea trials. These trials were completed in mid-November. On 9 March 2012, she once again left the Clyde to commence a second round of trials, scheduled to last 28 days in the waters off western Scotland.

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