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BABUR guided missile destroyer (1963/1982)

Babur 1985

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
بابر [Babur] (ex-London) C84   Swan Hunter, Wallsend, UK 26.2.1960 7.12.1961 14.11.1963 // 22.3.1982 training hulk 1993

Displacement standard, t

5440

Displacement full, t

6800

Length, m

153.9 pp 158.6 oa

Breadth, m

16.4

Draught, m

6.30 max

No of shafts

2

Machinery

COSAG: 2 sets AEI geared steam turbines, 2 Babcock & Wilcox boilers + 4 G6 gas turbines

Power, h. p.

30000+30000=60000

Max speed, kts

32.5

Fuel, t

oil 600

Endurance, nm(kts) 3500(28)

Armament

1 x 2 Sea Slug SAM (36), 2 x 4 Sea Cat GWS22 SAM (8), 2 x 2 - 120/45 Mk 6, 2 x 1 - 20/70 Mk 7, 1 helicopter (Alouette III)

Electronic equipment

type 965 AKE-1, type 277, type 978, type 992Q, type 901, type 903, 2x type 904 radars, type 170B, type 174, type 177, type 162 sonars, UA-8, UA-9 ECM suites, 2x Corvus decoy RL

Complement

470

Project history: Former RN County class destroyer. Classified as cruiser.

Modernizations: 1984: - 1 x 2 Sea Slug SAM, type 901 radar

late 1980s: - Alouette III helicopter,  type 170B, type 174 sonars; + Sea King helicopter, type 176 sonar

Naval service: No significant events.

Babur 1982

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