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Ministro Zenteno 1979

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comm	Fate
Ministro Zenteno (ex-Charles S. Sperry)	16		Federal, Kearny, USA	19.10.1943	13.3.1944	17.5.1944 // 8.1.1974	stricken 1990
Ministro Portales (ex-Douglas H. Fox)	17		Todd-Pacific, Seattle, USA	31.1.1944	30.9.1944	26.12.1944 // 8.1.1974	stricken 1990

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	2200
Displacement full, t	3300
Length, m	112.5 wl 114.8 oa
Breadth, m	12.5
Draught, m	4.30 hull 5.80 sonar
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 sets General Electric geared steam turbines, 4 Babcock & Wilcox boilers
Power, h. p.	60000
Max speed, kts	30
Fuel, t	oil 650
Endurance, nm(kts)	4600(15)
Armament	3 x 2 - 127/38 Mk 38, 2 x 1 - 20/70 Mk 10, 2 x 3 - 324 Mk 32 TT (Mk 44), 2 x 24 - 178 Hedgehog Mk 11 ASWRL, 1 helicopter (Alouette III)
Electronic equipment	16: SPS-29, SPS-10, Mk 25 radars, SQS-40 sonar with towed array, WLR-1 ECM suite 17: SPS-40, SPS-10, Mk 25 radars, SQS-40 sonar with towed array, WLR-1 ECM suite
Complement	274

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Project history

Former USN Allen M. Sumner class destroyers, received FRAM II modernization.

Modernizations

1980, bots: - 2 x 1 - 20/70, towed sonar array; + 2 x 1 MM38 Exocet SSM (2 MM38)

1982, both: - 2 x 1 MM38 Exocet SSM; + 2 x 1 - 40/60 Mk 3

Naval service

No significant events.