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Royal Danish Navy / Kongelige Danske Marine
Iver Huitfeldt class Guided Missile Frigate
 

iver huitfeldt class guided missile frigate royal danish navy 02x hdms peter willemoes niels juel ffg
 
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Ships:
 
F 361
HDMS Iver Huitfeldt (2011)
F 362
HDMS Peter Willemoes (2011)
F 363
HDMS Niels Juel (2011)
  
 
Specifications:
 
Length:
138.7 meters (455 feet)
Beam: 19.75 meters (64 ft 8 in)
Draft: 5.3 meters (17 ft)
Displacement: 6645 tonnes  full load
Speed: 30 knots (56 km/h)
Range: 9300 NM (17200 km) at 18 knots (33 km/h)
Complement: 117 crew / accommodations for up to 165

Propulsion:
CODAD (Combined Diesel and Diesel)
4 x MTU 8000 20V M70 diesel engines (8.2 MW, each)
2 shafts, 2
controllable-pitch propellers, 1 bow thruster

 
Armament:
 

Mk.41 Vertical Launching System / VLS (32 cells)
for
RIM-66 Standard Missiles SM-2MR Block IIIA
 
- - - - -
 
1 x Oto-Melara 76/62SR Super Rapid gun

1 x Oerlikon Millennium 35mm Close-in Weapon System (CIWS)

 
+ 6 spaces for STANFLEX-Modules for a combination of:
 

1 x additional Oto-Melara 76/62SR Super Rapid gun

Mk. 56 Vertical Launching System (VLS) for 12 x RIM-162 Evolved Sea Sparrow Misiles (ESSM)

Mk. 141 missile launchers for 8 x RGM-84 Harpoon Block II SSM

B515 twin Torpedo Tubes for MU90 Impact Torpedoes
 

 

Aviation:
flight deck and hangar for 1 helicopter (MH-60R Seahawk)

Systems:
  Thales SMART-L long-range air and surface surveillance radar
Thales APAR - air and surface search, tracking and guidance active phased array radar (I band)
Terma SCANTER 6000 surveillance and helicopter guidance radar
Atlas ASO 94 hull mounted sonar
2 x Saab CEROS 200 fire control radars
ES-3701 Tactical Radar Electronic Support Measures (ESM)
Seagnat / Mk. 36 SRBOC chaff/decoy System
8 x Terma Mk. 137 130 mm decoy launchers

  
 
The class is built on the experience gained from the Absalon-class frigates, and by reusing the basic hull design of the Absalon class the Royal Danish Navy have been able to construct the Iver Huitfeldt class considerably cheaper than comparable ships.

The frigates are compatible with the Danish Navy's StanFlex modular mission payload system used in the Absalons, and are designed with slots for six modules. Each of the four StanFlex positions on the missile deck is able to accommodate either the Mark 141 8-cell Harpoon launcher module, or the 12-cell Mark 56 ESSM VLS. The Peter Willemoes passed the British Flag Officer Sea Training (FOST) test in 2015.

While the Absalon-class ships are primarily designed for command and support roles, with a large ro-ro deck, the three new Iver Huitfeldt-class frigates will be equipped for an air defence role with Standard Missiles, and the potential to use Tomahawk cruise missiles, a first for the Danish Navy.

The ships were constructed in blocks in Estonia and Lithuania. These blocks were then towed to the Odense Steel Shipyard where they were assembled.


Most of the weapons for the three ships were reused from the previous Niels Juel-class corvette and the Flyvefisken-class patrol vessel. Other components were reused as well to keep the cost at a minimum.

These ships share their Anti-Air Warfare suite with the Royal Netherlands Navy's De Zeven Provinciën-class frigates and the German Navy's Sachsen-class frigates.

The sensors of this suite include the long range surveillance radar SMART-L (passive electronically scanned array) and the multi-function radar APAR active electronically scanned array. The SMART-L and APAR are highly complementary, in the sense that SMART-L is a L band radar providing very long range surveillance while APAR is an I band radar providing precise target tracking, a highly capable horizon search capability, and missile guidance using the Interrupted Continuous Wave Illumination (ICWI) technique, thus allowing guidance of 32 semi-active radar homing missiles in flight simultaneously, including 16 in the terminal guidance phase. The primary anti-air weapons are the point defence Evolved Sea Sparrow Missile and the area defence SM-2 IIIA. The Mk 41 Vertical Launch System is used to house and launch these missiles. Depending on the number of Harpoon launchers installed, up to 48 Evolved Sea Sparrow Missile and 32 SM-2 IIIA or SM-6 may be carried.

source: wikipedia
 
class images
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HDMS Iver Huitfeldt (F 361)

iver huitfeldt class guided missile frigate royal danish navy 48 f-362 hdms peter willemoes
HDMS Peter Willemoes (F 362)

iver huitfeldt class guided missile frigate royal danish navy 25 f-363 hdms niels juel
HDMS Niels Juel (F 363)



ARMAMENT + DETAILS
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iver huitfeldt class guided missile frigate royal danish navy 05x armament missile launcher ciws
ARMAMENT:
Mk. 41 Vertical Launching System / VLS (32 cells) for RIM-66 Standard Missiles SM-2MR
2 x Mk. 56 Vertical Launching System (12 cells) for RIM-162 Evolved Sea Sparrow Missiles (ESSM)
4x4 Mk. 141 Tube Launchers for RGM-84 Harpoon SSM
Rheinmetall/Oerlikon Millennium Close-in Weapon System (CIWS)

iver huitfeldt class guided missile frigate royal danish navy 25a armament vertical launching system vls standard essm harpoon
weapons deck - armament arrangement

iver huitfeldt class guided missile frigate royal danish navy 50x mk.41 vls mk.56 mk.141 rim-66 standard sm-2mr rim-162 essm rgm-84 harpoon

iver huitfeldt class guided missile frigate royal danish navy 52a armament launching systems

iver huitfeldt class guided missile frigate royal danish navy 67x mk.41 vertical launching system vls rim-66 standard sm-2mr sam
Mk. 41 Vertical Launching System / VLS (32 cells) for RIM-66 Standard Missiles SM-2MR

iver huitfeldt class guided missile frigate royal danish navy 45x oto melara 76/62 gun
2 x Oto-Melara 76/62 (76mm, 3-inches / 62-caliber) guns

iver huitfeldt class guided missile frigate royal danish navy 37x oto-melara 76mm 62-caliber gun

iver huitfeldt class guided missile frigate royal danish navy 38x b515 torpedo tubes mu90 impact
B515 twin Torpedo Tubes for MU90 Impact Torpedoes

iver huitfeldt class guided missile frigate royal danish navy 08x thales apar radar
Thales APAR air and surface search, tracking and guidance radar (I band)

iver huitfeldt class guided missile frigate royal danish navy 05x thales smart-l radar
Thales SMART-L long-range air and surface surveillance radar

iver huitfeldt class guided missile frigate royal danish navy 05x oerlikon millennium ciws 35mm saab ceros 200 fire control
Saab CEROS 200 fire control radar - Oerlikon Millennium Close-in Weapon System (CIWS)

iver huitfeldt class guided missile frigate royal danish navy 44 flight deck

iver huitfeldt class guided missile frigate royal danish navy 49x flight deck hangar
flight deck and hangar

iver huitfeldt class guided missile frigate royal danish navy 33x hangar aw101 eh-101 merlin helicopter

iver huitfeldt class guided missile frigate royal danish navy 34x hangar

iver huitfeldt class guided missile frigate royal danish navy 40x bridge helm steering
bridge

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iver huitfeldt class guided missile frigate royal danish navy 30x combat information center cic
combat information center

iver huitfeldt class guided missile frigate royal danish navy 03x sm-2mr standard

iver huitfeldt class guided missile frigate royal danish navy 04 drawing
 
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