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Royal Danish Navy / Kongelige Danske
Marine Iver Huitfeldt class Guided Missile Frigate |
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F 361 HDMS Iver Huitfeldt (2011) F 362 HDMS Peter Willemoes (2011) F 363 HDMS Niels Juel (2011) |
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Length: 138.7 meters (455 feet) Beam: 19.75 meters (64 ft 8 in) Draft: 5.3 meters (17 ft) Displacement: 6645 tonnes full load Speed: 30 knots (56 km/h) Range: 9300 NM (17200 km) at 18 knots (33 km/h) Complement: 117 crew / accommodations for up to 165 Propulsion: CODAD (Combined Diesel and Diesel) 4 x MTU 8000 20V M70 diesel engines (8.2 MW, each) 2 shafts, 2 controllable-pitch propellers, 1 bow thruster
Aviation: flight deck and hangar for 1 helicopter (MH-60R Seahawk) Systems: Thales SMART-L long-range air and surface surveillance radar Thales APAR - air and surface search, tracking and guidance active phased array radar (I band) Terma SCANTER 6000 surveillance and helicopter guidance radar Atlas ASO 94 hull mounted sonar 2 x Saab CEROS 200 fire control radars ES-3701 Tactical Radar Electronic Support Measures (ESM) Seagnat / Mk. 36 SRBOC chaff/decoy System 8 x Terma Mk. 137 130 mm decoy launchers |
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The class is built on the experience
gained from the Absalon-class frigates, and by reusing the basic
hull design of the Absalon class the Royal Danish Navy have been
able to construct the Iver Huitfeldt class considerably cheaper than
comparable ships. The frigates are compatible with the Danish Navy's StanFlex modular mission payload system used in the Absalons, and are designed with slots for six modules. Each of the four StanFlex positions on the missile deck is able to accommodate either the Mark 141 8-cell Harpoon launcher module, or the 12-cell Mark 56 ESSM VLS. The Peter Willemoes passed the British Flag Officer Sea Training (FOST) test in 2015. While the Absalon-class ships are primarily designed for command and support roles, with a large ro-ro deck, the three new Iver Huitfeldt-class frigates will be equipped for an air defence role with Standard Missiles, and the potential to use Tomahawk cruise missiles, a first for the Danish Navy. The ships were constructed in blocks in Estonia and Lithuania. These blocks were then towed to the Odense Steel Shipyard where they were assembled. Most of the weapons for the three ships were reused from the previous Niels Juel-class corvette and the Flyvefisken-class patrol vessel. Other components were reused as well to keep the cost at a minimum. These ships share their Anti-Air Warfare suite with the Royal Netherlands Navy's De Zeven Provinciën-class frigates and the German Navy's Sachsen-class frigates. The sensors of this suite include the long range surveillance radar SMART-L (passive electronically scanned array) and the multi-function radar APAR active electronically scanned array. The SMART-L and APAR are highly complementary, in the sense that SMART-L is a L band radar providing very long range surveillance while APAR is an I band radar providing precise target tracking, a highly capable horizon search capability, and missile guidance using the Interrupted Continuous Wave Illumination (ICWI) technique, thus allowing guidance of 32 semi-active radar homing missiles in flight simultaneously, including 16 in the terminal guidance phase. The primary anti-air weapons are the point defence Evolved Sea Sparrow Missile and the area defence SM-2 IIIA. The Mk 41 Vertical Launch System is used to house and launch these missiles. Depending on the number of Harpoon launchers installed, up to 48 Evolved Sea Sparrow Missile and 32 SM-2 IIIA or SM-6 may be carried. source: wikipedia |
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class images for more images go to the individual ship-site |
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 HDMS Iver Huitfeldt (F 361)  HDMS Peter Willemoes (F 362)  HDMS Niels Juel (F 363) ARMAMENT + DETAILS for more images go to the individual ship-site  ARMAMENT: Mk. 41 Vertical Launching System / VLS (32 cells) for RIM-66 Standard Missiles SM-2MR 2 x Mk. 56 Vertical Launching System (12 cells) for RIM-162 Evolved Sea Sparrow Missiles (ESSM) 4x4 Mk. 141 Tube Launchers for RGM-84 Harpoon SSM Rheinmetall/Oerlikon Millennium Close-in Weapon System (CIWS)  weapons deck - armament arrangement    Mk. 41 Vertical Launching System / VLS (32 cells) for RIM-66 Standard Missiles SM-2MR  2 x Oto-Melara 76/62 (76mm, 3-inches / 62-caliber) guns   B515 twin Torpedo Tubes for MU90 Impact Torpedoes  Thales APAR air and surface search, tracking and guidance radar (I band)  Thales SMART-L long-range air and surface surveillance radar  Saab CEROS 200 fire control radar - Oerlikon Millennium Close-in Weapon System (CIWS)   flight deck and hangar    bridge   combat information center   |
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