HMAS Hobart (2013)

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HMAS Hobart (artist's depiction)
Career RAN Ensign
Commissioned: 2013 (scheduled)
General characteristics
Displacement: 6,250 tons standard
Length: 148 m
Beam:   18.2 m
Draught:     5.9 m
Propulsion: Gas turbines?
Speed: 28 knots (52 km/h)
Range: 5,500 miles at 18 knots
  (10,000 km at 33 km/h)
Complement: Approx 180
Armament: 64 cells of Mk 41 VLS for SM-2MR and Evolved Sea Sparrow missiles; RGM-84 Harpoon launchers;
1 × Mk.45 5 in (127 mm) gun;
CIWS;
torpedo tubes
Aircraft carried: 2 × ASW helicopters; UAVs

The third HMAS Hobart is planned to be the first of three ships to be built for the Royal Australian Navy under the Sea 4000 Project. The ship will be classed primarily in the air defence mission, but will be a true multi-role vessel, being fitted with the Aegis combat system. Its onboard facilities will be such to allow it to act as a task group flagship, and it will have space to accommodate combat troops and special forces as needed. In June 2007, it was announced that the Spanish F100 frigate would form the basis of the design. Hobart will be built by the Australian Submarine Corporation at Osborne, South Australia, and is due to enter service in approximately 2013.


Hobart class destroyer
Hobart | Brisbane | Sydney

List of major warship classes of the Royal Australian Navy