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OLIVER HAZARD PERRY missile frigates (1977 - 1989)

Oliver H. Perry 2000

McClusky 2010

No Name Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comm Fate
FFG7 Oliver Hazard Perry 370 General Dynamics Bath Iron Works 12.6.1975 25.9.1976 17.12.1977 stricken 5.1999
FFG8 McInerney 373 General Dynamics Bath Iron Works 16.1.1978 4.11.1978 15.12.1979 to Pakistan 8.2010 (عالمگیر [Alamgir])
FFG9 Wadsworth 125 Todd, San Pedro 13.7.1977 29.7.1978 28.2.1980 to Poland 6.2002 (Generał Tadeusz Kościuszko)
FFG10 Duncan 76 Todd Pacific, Seattle 29.4.1977 1.3.1978 15.5.1980 stricken 1.1998
FFG11 Clark 374 General Dynamics Bath Iron Works 17.7.1978 24.3.1979 9.5.1980 to Poland 3.2000 (Generał Kazimierz Pułaski)
FFG12 George Philip 126 Todd, San Pedro 14.12.1977 16.12.1978 10.10.1980 stricken 5.2004
FFG13 Samuel Eliot Morison 375 General Dynamics Bath Iron Works 4.12.1978 14.7.1979 11.10.1980 to Turkey 4.2002 (Gökova)
FFG14 Sides 127 Todd, San Pedro 7.8.1978 19.5.1979 30.5.1981 stricken 5.2004
FFG15 Estocin 376 General Dynamics Bath Iron Works 2.4.1979 3.11.1979 10.1.1981 to Turkey 4.2003 (Göksu)
FFG16 Clifton Sprague 377 General Dynamics Bath Iron Works 30.7.1979 16.2.1980 21.3.1981 to Turkey 8.1997 (Gaziantep)
FFG19 John A. Moore 77 Todd Pacific, Seattle 19.12.1978 20.10.1979 14.11.1981 to Turkey 9.2000 (Gediz)
FFG20 Antrim 78 Todd Pacific, Seattle 21.6.1978 27.3.1979 26.9.1981 stricken 9.1997, to Turkey (Giresun)
FFG21 Flatley 378 General Dynamics Bath Iron Works 13.11.1979 15.5.1980 20.6.1981 to Turkey 8.1998 (Gemlik)
FFG22 Fahrion 81 Todd Pacific, Seattle 1.12.1978 24.8.1979 16.1.1982 to Egypt 3.1998 (شرم الشيخ [Sharm El Sheikh])
FFG23 Lewis B. Puller 129 Todd, San Pedro 23.5.1979 15.3.1980 17.4.1982 to Egypt 9.1998 (توشكى [Toushka])
FFG24 Jack Williams 379 General Dynamics Bath Iron Works 25.2.1980 30.8.1980 19.9.1981 to Bahrain 9.1996 (صبحى [Sabha])
FFG25 Copeland 130 Todd, San Pedro 24.10.1979 26.7.1980 7.8.1982 to Egypt 9.1996 (طابا [Mubarak])
FFG26 Gallery 380 General Dynamics Bath Iron Works 17.5.1980 20.12.1980 5.12.1981 stricken 6.1996, to Egypt (مبارك [Taba])
FFG27 Mahlon S. Tisdale 131 Todd, San Pedro 19.3.1980 7.2.1981 27.11.1982 stricken 2.1998, to Turkey (Gökçeada)
FFG28 Boone 82 Todd Pacific, Seattle 27.3.1979 16.1.1980 15.5.1982 stricken 2.2012
FFG29 Stephen W. Groves 381 General Dynamics Bath Iron Works 16.9.1980 4.4.1981 17.4.1982 stricken 2.2012
FFG30 Reid 132 Todd, San Pedro 8.10.1980 27.6.1981 19.2.1983 stricken 9.1998, to Turkey (Gelibolu)
FFG31 Stark 83 Todd Pacific, Seattle 24.8.1979 30.5.1980 23.10.1982 stricken 5.1999
FFG32 John L. Hall 382 General Dynamics Bath Iron Works 5.1.1981 24.7.1981 26.6.1982 stricken 3.2012
FFG33 Jarrett 133 Todd, San Pedro 11.2.1981 17.10.1981 2.7.1983 stricken 5.2011
FFG34 Aubrey Fitch 383 General Dynamics Bath Iron Works 10.4.1981 17.10.1981 9.10.1982 stricken 5.1999
FFG36 Underwood 384 General Dynamics Bath Iron Works 30.7.1981 6.2.1982 29.1.1983 stricken 3.2013
FFG37 Crommelin 85 Todd Pacific, Seattle 30.5.1980 2.7.1981 18.6.1983 stricken 10.2012
FFG38 Curts 134 Todd, San Pedro 1.7.1981 6.3.1982 8.10.1983 stricken 2.2013
FFG39 Doyle 385 General Dynamics Bath Iron Works 23.10.1981 22.5.1982 21.5.1983 stricken 7.2011
FFG40 Halyburton 86 Todd Pacific, Seattle 26.9.1980 13.10.1981 7.1.1984 stricken 9.2014
FFG41 McClusky 135 Todd, San Pedro 21.10.1981 18.9.1982 10.12.1983 stricken 1.2015
FFG42 Klakring 386 General Dynamics Bath Iron Works 19.2.1982 18.9.1982 20.8.1983 stricken 3.2013
FFG43 Thach 136 Todd, San Pedro 6.3.1982 18.12.1982 17.3.1984 stricken 11.2013
FFG45 De Wert 387 General Dynamics Bath Iron Works 14.6.1982 18.12.1982 19.11.1983 stricken 4.2014
FFG46 Rentz 137 Todd, San Pedro 18.9.1982 16.7.1983 30.6.1984 stricken 5.2014
FFG47 Nicholas 388 General Dynamics Bath Iron Works 27.9.1982 23.4.1983 10.3.1984 stricken 3.2014
FFG48 Vandegrift 88 Todd Pacific, Seattle 13.10.1981 15.10.1982 24.11.1984 stricken 3.2015
FFG49 Robert G. Bradley 389 General Dynamics Bath Iron Works 28.12.1982 13.8.1983 30.6.1984 stricken 3.2014
FFG50 Taylor 390 General Dynamics Bath Iron Works 5.5.1983 5.11.1983 1.12.1984 stricken 5.2015, to Taiwan (銘傳 [Ming Chuan])
FFG51 Gary 138 Todd, San Pedro 18.12.1982 19.11.1983 17.11.1984 stricken 8.2015, to Taiwan (逢甲 [Feng Chiah)
FFG52 Carr 89 Todd Pacific, Seattle 26.3.1982 26.2.1983 27.7.1985 stricken 3.2013
FFG53 Hawes 391 General Dynamics Bath Iron Works 26.8.1983 18.2.1984 9.2.1985 stricken 12.2010
FFG54 Ford 139 Todd, San Pedro 16.7.1983 23.6.1984 29.6.1985 stricken 10.2013
FFG55 Elrod 392 General Dynamics Bath Iron Works 21.11.1983 12.5.1984 18.5.1985 stricken 1.2015
FFG56 Simpson 393 General Dynamics Bath Iron Works 27.2.1984 31.8.1984 21.9.1985 stricken 9.2015
FFG57 Reuben James 140 Todd, San Pedro 19.11.1983 8.2.1985 22.3.1986 stricken 8.2013
FFG58 Samuel B. Roberts 394 General Dynamics Bath Iron Works 21.5.1984 8.12.1984 12.4.1986 stricken 5.2015
FFG59 Kauffman 395 General Dynamics Bath Iron Works 8.4.1985 29.3.1986 28.2.1987 stricken 9.2015
FFG60 Rodney M. Davis 141 Todd, San Pedro 8.2.1985 11.1.1986 9.5.1987 stricken 3.2015
FFG61 Ingraham 142 Todd, San Pedro 30.3.1987 25.6.1988 5.8.1989 stricken 1.2015

 

Displacement standard, t

FFG7-35: 3087-3197 (light)

FFG36-61: 3101-3204 (light)

Displacement full, t

FFG7-35: 3973-4082

FFG36-61: 4016-4108

Length, m

FFG7-35: 125.9 wl 135.6 oa

FFG36-61: 125.9 wl 138.8 oa

Breadth, m

13.7

Draught, m

5.80 mean 6.70 max

No of shafts

1

Machinery

2 General Electric LM-2500 gas turbines

Power, h. p.

41000

Max speed, kts

29

Fuel, t

gas turbine oil 587

Endurance, nm(kts) 4200(20)

Armament

FFG7-35: 1 x 1 Harpoon SSM / Standard SM-1MR SAM (4 RGM-84 + 36 RIM-66), 1 x 1 - 76/62 Mk 75, 2 x 3 - 324 Mk 32 TT, 2 helicopters (SH-2)

FFG36-60: 1 x 1 Harpoon SSM / Standard SM-1MR SAM (4 RGM-84 + 36 RIM-66), 1 x 1 - 76/62 Mk 75, 2 x 3 - 324 Mk 32 TT, 2 helicopters (SH-60)

FFG61: 1 x 1 Harpoon SSM / Standard SM-1MR SAM (4 RGM-84 + 36 RIM-66), 1 x 1 - 76/62 Mk 75, 1 x 6 - 20/76 Mk 15 Phalanx CIWS, 2 x 3 - 324 Mk 32 TT, 2 helicopters (SH-60)

Electronic equipment

FFG7-60: SPS-55, SPS-49(v)4, Mk 92 Mod.4, SPG-60 radars, SQQ-89(v)2 sonar suite (SQS-56 hull-mounted sonar + SQR-19(v)2 towed array), SLQ-32(v)2 ECM suite, 2x Mk 137 decoy RL (Mk 36 SRBOC system), SLQ-25 Nixie towed torpedo decoy

FFG61: SPS-55, SPS-49(v)4, Mk 92 Mod.4, SPG-60, Mk 90 radars, SQQ-89(v)2 sonar suite (SQS-56 hull-mounted sonar + SQR-19(v)2 towed array), SLQ-32(v)2 ECM suite, 2x Mk 137 decoy RL (Mk 36 SRBOC system), SLQ-25 Nixie towed torpedo decoy

Complement

217

   

Project history: These frigates, direct successors to the Knox class, suffer from much the same criticisms: a single screw and a single weapon (one Mk 13 missile launcher). However, they benefit from a considerable, if unappreciated, degree of redundancy. For example, the fire control system has two channels (two guidance radars, physically well separated). There was a pair of retractable 325hp motors to bring the ship home at 6kts if she loses her main power plant. Although the hull sonar was a short-range (direct path) SQS-56, the primary ASW was SQR-19 towed array, its contacts prosecuted by the two LAMPS helicopters in a large hangar aft.

    The Perry class suffered from several ironies. It was first conceived after the truncation of the Spruance class failed to replace the FRAM destroyers; Admiral Zumwalt sought alternative weapon suits for AAW, ASW and anti-ship warfare in the hope of reducing unit costs. In fact, the primary anti-ship weapon, Harpoon, could be fired from the primary AAW launcher, the Mk 13. If the ASROC missile (which cannot be fired from the Mk 13) was foregone, helicopter delivery would provide an AAW-oriented frigate with a considerable ASW stand-off capability. Indeed, even though the Perry does not share the elaborate silencing of the Spruance (for example, it had a diesel ship service generator) or the long-range sonar of previous ocean escorts, it gained a very considerable detection capability in the form of the towed array. Ironically, the ASW frigate was originally rejected on the theory that large numbers of such ships with effective sonars already existed. The advent of the towed array/helicopter combination showed in the decision to double the number of helicopters, which had a considerable effect on the overall design. In the original one-helicopter version, the helipad was placed aft of amidships, in the most favourable position, with the hangar splitting the uptakes. However, two helicopters required a much wider hangar, and both it and the helipad had to be moved aft.

    The Mk 92 fire control system was of Dutch origin and was employed, in a somewhat simpler form, in the Pegasus hydrofoils. As installed in the Perry class, it was part of a combat system particularly adapted to combat 'pop-up' weapons such as the Soviet SSN-7 underwater-launched missile. The OTO Melara 76mm gun was chosen as superior to a 127mm/54 in air defence, and it was complemented by a Vulcan Phalanx close-in defence weapon.

    Although all were intended to operate LAMPS III helicopters, FFG7-35 were completed without the necessary equipment, including an enlarged flight deck (the ship was lengthened 3.16m to accommodate mooring equipment below the flight deck), RAST gear, and fin stabilisers. From the FY79 ships (FFG36) on, ships were so fitted (RAST was not fitted on completion until FFG50).

    RAST (Recovery Assistance, Securing, and Traversing) was tested on board FFG8 in 1981 (rebuilt as SH-60B trials ship, completed in February 1981). FFG26 conducted stabiliser trials in 1982.

Modernizations: 1981-1990, McInerney, Boone, Stephen W. Groves, John L. Hall, Jarrett: length oa became 138.8m; - 2 SH-2 helicopters; +2 SH-60 helicopters

1984-1986, all: - Standard SM-1MR SAM; + Standard SM-1MR Block VI SAM

1986-1995, Underwood, Nicholas, Vandegrift, Taylor, Gary, Carr, Hawes, Ford, Elrod, Reuben James, Kauffman, Ingraham: - SPS-49(v)4, Mk 92 Mod. 4 radars; + SPS-49(v)5, Mk 92 Mod. 6 radars, SYS-2(v)2 CCS

1979-1980, McInerney, Clark, Samuel Eliot Morison; early 1980s, Mahlon S. Tisdale, Boone, Stephen W. Groves, Reid, Stark, John L. Hall, Jarett, Aubrey Fitch, Underwood, Crommelin, Curts, Doyle, Halyburton, McClusky, Klakring, Thach, De Wert; 1985-1988, Oliver Hazard Perry, Wadsworth, Duncan, George Philip, Sides, Estocin, Clifton Sprague, John A. Moore, Antrim, Flatley, Fahrion, Lewis B. Puller, Jack Williams, Copeland, Gallery, Rentz, Nicholas, Vandegrift, Robert G. Bradley, Taylor, Gary, Carr, Hawes, Ford, Elrod, Simpson, Reuben James, Samuel B. Roberts, Kauffman, Rodney M. Davis, Ingraham: + 1 x 6 - 20/76 Mk 15 Phalanx CIWS, Mk 90 radar

1990s, Sides, Aubrey Fitch Crommelin, Taylor, Gary, Carr, Ford: - SQQ-89(V)2 sonar suite (SQS-56 hull-mounted sonar + SQR-19(v)2 towed array); + SQQ-89(v)10 sonar suite (SQS-56 hull-mounted sonar + SQR-19B(v)2 towed array)

1990s, all: + (2 - 4) x 1 - 12.7/90

2004-2005, all survived: - 1 x 1 Harpoon SSM / Standard SM-1MR SAM

2009-2010, all survived: + 1 x 1 - 25/75 Mk 38 Mod. 2, 4x Mk 137 Mod. 10 Nulka decoy RLs

Naval service: No significant events.

Oliver Hazard Perry 1977

Thach 2003

Rodney M. Davis 2008

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