Template:Class box Iroquois destroyer
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[edit] Iroquois-class destroyer
- Builders:
Canada (MIL Davie Shipbuilding in Lauzon, Quebec) - Type: Large multi-role guided missile destroyer with helicopter
- Displacement: 5,300 tons
- Aircraft: 2 x CH-124 Sea King helicopters
- Armament: 29 x VLS Standard SM-2MR Block IIIA SAMs; 1 x 76 mm/62 OTO Melara; 6 x 12.75 in tubes firing Mark-46 Mod 5 torpedoes; 1 x Phalanx CIWS (Block 1); 8 x M2 Machine Guns
- Powerplant: COGOG - 2 shafts: 2 x Allison 570-KF cruise gas turbines (5.6 MW); 2 x Pratt & Whitney FT4-A2 boost gas turbines (37 MW)
- Speed: 29+ knots
- Ships in class: 4 total: HMCS Iroquois, HMCS Athabaskan, HMCS Algonquin, HMCS Huron
- Operator:
Canadian Forces Maritime Command - Commissioned: 29 July 1972
- Fate: 3 In active service, 1 decommissioned (HMCS Huron)
