Hobart-class destroyer
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The Hobart class is a ship class of three air warfare destroyers built for the Royal Australian Navy. Planning for ships to replace the Adelaide-class frigates and restore the capability last exhibite
HMAS Hobart in December 2017
The two competing designs for the Australian AWD project: Arleigh Burke-class destroyer USS Donald Cook leading Álvaro de Bazán-class frigate Álvaro de Bazán in 2005
HMAS Hobart, left, and HMAS Brisbane at ASC Osborne in June 2016.
HMAS Hobart's mast and upper superstructure, showing many of the ship's sensors
Perth-class destroyer
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The Perth-class destroyers were three modified Charles F. Adams-class guided missile destroyers operated by the Royal Australian Navy. Ordered from Defoe Shipbuilding Company during 1962 and 1963, HMA
Hobart-class destroyer
…built for the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). Planning for ships to replace the Adelaide-class frigates and restore the capability last exhibited by the Perth-class destroyers began by 2000, initially under acquisition project SEA 1400, which was re-designated SEA 4000. Although the designation "Air Warfare Destroyer" is used…
HMAS Perth at sea in 1980
Hobart underway in 1992
Perth and Brisbane in 1995
The bridge and forward gun turret of Brisbane on display at the Australian War Memorial