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HMAS ''Stuart'' (FFH 153) is an ''Anzac''-class frigate of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). She was built at Williamstown in Victoria, and commissioned into the RAN in 2002. The frigate is operational as of 2015. ==Design and construction== (詳細はRiver-class destroyer escorts with a mid-capability patrol frigate.〔 Australian shipbuilding was thought to be incapable of warship design, so the RAN decided to take a proven foreign design and modify it.〔〔 Around the same time, the Royal New Zealand Navy (RNZN) was looking to replace four ''Leander''-class frigates; a deterioration in New Zealand-United States relations, the need to improve alliances with nearby nations, and the commonalities between the RAN and RNZN ships' requirements led the two nations to begin collaborating on the acquisition in 1987.〔〔 Tenders were requested by the Anzac Ship Project at the end of 1986, with 12 ship designs (including an airship) submitted.〔〔 By August 1987, the tenders were narrowed down in October to Blohm + Voss's MEKO 200 design, the M class (later ''Karel Doorman'' class) offered by Royal Schelde, and a scaled-down Type 23 frigate proposed by Yarrow Shipbuilders.〔〔 In 1989, the Australian government announced that Melbourne-based shipbuilder AMECON (which became Tenix Defense) would build the modified MEKO 200 design.〔〔〔 The Australians ordered eight ships, while New Zealand ordered two, with an unexercised option for two more.〔〔 The ''Anzac''s are based on Blohm + Voss' MEKO 200 PN (or ''Vasco da Gama''-class) frigates, modified to meet Australian and New Zealand specifications and maximise the use of locally built equipment.〔〔 Each frigate has a full load displacement.〔 The ships are long at the waterline, and long overall, with a beam of , and a full load draught of .〔 A Combined Diesel or Gas (CODOG) propulsion machinery layout is used, with a single, General Electric LM2500-30 gas turbine and two MTU 12V1163 TB83 diesel engines driving the ship's two controllable-pitch propellers.〔〔 Maximum speed is , and maximum range is over at ; about 50% greater than other MEKO 200 designs.〔〔〔 The standard ship's company of an ''Anzac'' consists of 22 officers and 141 sailors.〔 As designed, the main armament for the frigate is a 5-inch 54 calibre Mark 45 gun, supplemented by an eight-cell Mark 41 vertical launch system (for RIM-7 Sea Sparrow or RIM-162 Evolved Sea Sparrow missiles), two machine guns, and two Mark 32 triple torpedo tube sets (initially firing Mark 46 torpedoes, but later upgraded to use the MU90 Impact torpedo).〔〔 They were also designed for but not with a close-in weapons system (two Mini Typhoons fitted when required from 2005 onwards), two quad-canister Harpoon anti-ship missile launchers (which were installed across the RAN vessels from 2005 onwards), and a second Mark 41 launcher (which has not been added).〔 The Australian ''Anzac''s use a Sikorsky S-70B-2 Seahawk helicopter; plans to replace them with Kaman SH-2G Super Seasprites were cancelled in 2008 due to ongoing problems.〔 ''Stuart'' was laid down at Williamstown, Victoria on 25 July 1998.〔 The ship was assembled from six hull modules and six superstructure modules; the superstructure modules were fabricated in Whangarei, New Zealand, and hull modules were built at both Williamstown and Newcastle, New South Wales, with final integration at Williamstown.〔 She was launched on 17 April 1999〔 by the wife of Admiral Chris Barrie, the Chief of the Defence Force, and commissioned into the RAN on 17 August 2002.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「HMAS Stuart (FFH 153)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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