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To: SandRat

Not to nitpick, but how can this ship be an FFG (guided missile frigate) if it can't fire missiles?


4 posted on 01/18/2006 5:21:02 PM PST by Oztrich Boy (Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering)
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To: Oztrich Boy

General Characteristics, Oliver Hazard Perry Class

Builder: Bath Iron Works:
Todd Shipyards, San Pedro, Calif.: FFG 61.
Date Deployed: 17 December 1977 (Oliver Hazard Perry)
Propulsion: Two General Electric LM 2500 gas turbine engines; 1 shaft, 41,000 shaft horsepower total.
Length: 445 feet (133.5 meters); 453 feet (135.9 meters) with LAMPS III modification.
Beam: 45 feet (13.5 meters).
Displacement: 4,100 tons (4,165.80 metric tons) full load.
Speed: 29 plus knots (33.4+ miles per hour).
Crew: 17 Officers, 198 Enlisted.
Armament: Standard Missile (MR); Harpoon (from Standard Missile Launcher); Six MK-46 torpedoes(from two triple mounts); One 76 mm (3-inch)/62 caliber MK 75 rapid fire gun; One Phalanx close-in-weapons system.
Aircraft: Two SH-60 (LAMPS III) in FFG 8, 28, 29, 32, 33, 36-61
One SH-2 (Lamps Mk-I) in FFG 9-19, 30, 31.

USS Ingraham (FFG 61), Everett, WA http://www.ingraham.navy.mil/


8 posted on 01/18/2006 7:29:38 PM PST by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country. What else needs to be said?)
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