Specifications

• Displacement: 2,900 tons (empty); 3,360 tons (full load)
• Length: 413 ft (125.9 m)
• Beam: 49 ft(15 m)
• Draught: 19 ft(5.8 m)
• Propulsion:
  • 2 shafts
  • 2 Rolls-Royce Tyne RM-1C cruise gas turbines, 10200 shp tot.
  • 2 Rolls-Royce Olympus TM-3B boost gas turbines, 25800 shp tot.
  • Max shaft horsepower: 51600 shp max
• Speed: 30.5 knots (59.8 km/h)
• Range: 4500 nautical miles (8,334 km) at 18 knots (35 km/h)
• Armament
  • 8 MM 40 Exocet
    Exocet
    The Exocet is a French-built anti-ship missile whose various versions can be launched from surface vessels, submarines, helicopters and fixed wing aircraft. Hundreds were fired in combat during the 1980s.-Etymology:...
    
     SSM
  • 1 8-cell Albatros SAM (24 Aspide missiles)
  • 1 5/54 DP
  • 4 twin 40 mm 70-cal. OTO Melara AA
  • 12.7 mm machine guns
  • 2 triple 324 mm ILAS-2 ASW torpedo tubes (18 torpedoes tot.)'
  • 1 depth charge rack (9 depth charges)
• Aircraft: aft helicopter deck and hangar; 1 Alouette III or 1 AS-555-SN Fennec
• Complement:224
• Radar: DA-08A air/surface search
• Sonar: Krupp-Atlas 80 hull
• Fire Control: WM-25 gun control, STIR SAM control
• Electronic Warfare
  • Racal Scimitar jammer, 2 20-round OTO Melara SCALR decoy
  • 1 Graseby G1738 towed torpedo decoy
• Concept/Program: German-built general purpose frigates; they are the main surface asset of the Argentine navy.
• Builders: Blohm + Voss
  Blohm + Voss
  Blohm + Voss , is a German shipbuilding and engineering works. It is a subsidiary of ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems; there were plans to sell 80% of Blohm + Voss to Abu Dhabi Mar Group, but talks collapsed in July 2011.-History:It was founded on April 5, 1877, by Hermann Blohm and Ernst Voss as a...
  
  , Hamburg, Germany.
• Design: MEKO 360 modular design.

Ships in the class

• ARA Almirante Brown (D-10)
  ARA Almirante Brown (D-10)
  ARA Almirante Brown is the lead ship of the MEKO 360H2 series of four destroyers built for the Argentine Navy. The ship is the ninth ship in the history of the Argentine Navy to be named for Admiral William Brown, the founder and commander of the Argentine Navy during Argentina's war of...
  
  
• ARA La Argentina (D-11)
  ARA La Argentina (D-11)
  ARA La Argentina is the second ship of the MEKO 360H2 series of four destroyers built for the Argentine Navy. The ship is the eighth ship in the history of the Argentine Navy to bear the name of the corsair frigate La Argentina which conducted a privateer raid around the world against Spanish...
  
  
• ARA Heroína (D-12)
  ARA Heroína (D-12)
  ARA Heroína is the third ship of the MEKO 360H2 series of four destroyers built for the Argentine Navy. The ship is the third ship in the history of the Argentine Navy to bear the name of the corsair frigate Heroína, which claimed the Falkland Islands for the United Provinces of the River Plate on...
  
  
• ARA Sarandí (D-13)
  ARA Sarandí (D-13)
  ARA Sarandí is the fourth and last ship of the MEKO 360H2 series of four destroyers built for the Argentine Navy. The ship is the fourth ship in the history of the Argentine Navy to bear the name of the schooner Sarandí, which was a famous ship of the Argentine Navy during the Argentina-Brazil War...
  
  

External links

• World Navies Today: Argentina