SamuraiBlue
Captain
Looking at the diagram, I'm not able to find where the aft radar arrays would be situated.
AEGIS and AEGIS Like escort combatants of the World
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Looking at the diagram, I'm not able to find where the aft radar arrays would be situated.
kwaigonegin
Colonel
About the same spot as current Burkes. Diagram is a lil fuzzy but the flt III ships are improvements more on the guts and sensors etc than the actual design of the superstructure. Everything will be centered around the AMDR. The exterior for the most part would look like the 2As.
Looking at the superstructure/bridge of the AB III in that diagram, it is basically in an octagonal shape.
The surface that the aft panels are on is actually normal to your viewing plane, just forward of the forward smoke stack. It is at an angle and directly normal to your view so it appears as a line. But the aft AMDR panels are on that surface on each side.
They are in he same place that you see them on the Flight IIA DDG in the following pic (just as Kwaig explained):
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Here's a better pic of the Hobart, now the day before launch with the pennant number painted on and ready to go to the party:
Projected service entry dates for the three Hobart class, AEGIS Air Warfare Destroyer (AWD):
HMAS Hobart, D39, June 2017
HMAS Brisbane, D40, September 2018
HMAS Sydeny, D41, March 2020
Their characteristics are:
Displacement: 6,890 tons (full load)
Length: 483 ft.
Beam: 61 ft.
Draft: 17 ft.
Propulsion: CODOG
2 x &lm2500 gas turbines (23,500 hp each)
2 x 16V Bravo diesel engines (7,850 hp each)
Speed: 2+ knots
5,000+ nmiles at 18 knots
Crew: 202 (186 + 16 aircrew)
Sensros & Processors:
- AN/SPY-1D(V) S-Band Radar
- AN/SPQ-9B X-Band Pulse Doppler Radar
- Mark-99 fire Control with two continuous illuminators
- 2 x L-3
- X-Band Navigation Radar
- Ultra Electronics Series 2500 Electro-Optical director
- Ultra Electronics Sonar Suite
- Saqem VAMPIRE ID Search and Track System
- Rafael Toplite stabilized target acquisition
Electronics:
- ITT EDO Recon & Surveillance
- ES-3701 ESM Radar
- SwRI MBS-567A Communications
- Ultra Electronics Avalong mulit-pirpose digital receiver
- Jenkins Engineering Low-band receiver
Decoys:
- 4 x Nulka decoy launchers
- 4 x 6 tube multipurpose decpoy launchers
Armament:
- 48 cell Mk41 VLS for Standard 2 and ESSM missiles
- 2 x 4 HArpoon SSM launchers
- 1 x Mark 45 4.5 inch gun
- 2 x 25mm M242 aBUshmaster Typhoon mounts
- 1 x 20mm Phalanx CIWS
- 2 x 2 tube Mark 32 mod 9 Torpedo launcher
Aircraft: Hanger and pad for one MH-60R Seahwak helicopter
HMAS Hobart, D39, June 2017
HMAS Brisbane, D40, September 2018
HMAS Sydeny, D41, March 2020
Their characteristics are:
Displacement: 6,890 tons (full load)
Length: 483 ft.
Beam: 61 ft.
Draft: 17 ft.
Propulsion: CODOG
2 x &lm2500 gas turbines (23,500 hp each)
2 x 16V Bravo diesel engines (7,850 hp each)
Speed: 2+ knots
5,000+ nmiles at 18 knots
Crew: 202 (186 + 16 aircrew)
Sensros & Processors:
- AN/SPY-1D(V) S-Band Radar
- AN/SPQ-9B X-Band Pulse Doppler Radar
- Mark-99 fire Control with two continuous illuminators
- 2 x L-3
- X-Band Navigation Radar
- Ultra Electronics Series 2500 Electro-Optical director
- Ultra Electronics Sonar Suite
- Saqem VAMPIRE ID Search and Track System
- Rafael Toplite stabilized target acquisition
Electronics:
- ITT EDO Recon & Surveillance
- ES-3701 ESM Radar
- SwRI MBS-567A Communications
- Ultra Electronics Avalong mulit-pirpose digital receiver
- Jenkins Engineering Low-band receiver
Decoys:
- 4 x Nulka decoy launchers
- 4 x 6 tube multipurpose decpoy launchers
Armament:
- 48 cell Mk41 VLS for Standard 2 and ESSM missiles
- 2 x 4 HArpoon SSM launchers
- 1 x Mark 45 4.5 inch gun
- 2 x 25mm M242 aBUshmaster Typhoon mounts
- 1 x 20mm Phalanx CIWS
- 2 x 2 tube Mark 32 mod 9 Torpedo launcher
Aircraft: Hanger and pad for one MH-60R Seahwak helicopter
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Here are ten of the pictures I gathered from the launch ceremonies, spread out over the next two posts. (Also see for all of my pics on the Hobart):
Workers and other personnel gathered before the launch
Launch ceremonies preparing to start
Royal Australian Navy Band playing at the ceremonies
Speaker at the Launching of the Hobart, D39, AWD
HMAS Hobart, D39, prepared to launch
Workers and other personnel gathered before the launch
Launch ceremonies preparing to start
Royal Australian Navy Band playing at the ceremonies
Speaker at the Launching of the Hobart, D39, AWD
HMAS Hobart, D39, prepared to launch
Here are the next five pictures I gathered from the launch ceremonies. (Also see...
...for all of the pictures):
Bridge area of the Hobart
Workers aboard the Hobart watching the launch ceremonies
Main gun and bow of the Hobart
HMAS Hobart, D39 AWD, forward port quarter, after launch, May 23, 2015
HMAS Hobart, D39 AWD, forward starboard quarter, after launch, May 23, 2015
...for all of the pictures):
Bridge area of the Hobart
Workers aboard the Hobart watching the launch ceremonies
Main gun and bow of the Hobart
HMAS Hobart, D39 AWD, forward port quarter, after launch, May 23, 2015
HMAS Hobart, D39 AWD, forward starboard quarter, after launch, May 23, 2015
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Both.
Burke is wider than 052D.
052D's VLS individual cells are also larger than Mk-41s individual cell (meaning they can fire larger diameter missiles, via cold launch), and I suspect an 8 cell PLAN common VLS module is also larger than an 8 cell Mk-41 module.
