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Lütjens 1976  

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Lütjens	D185		Bath Iron Wks, USA	1.3.1966	11.8.1967	22.3.1969	stricken 12.2003
Mölders	D186		Bath Iron Wks, USA	12.4.1966	13.4.1968	20.9.1969	stricken 5.2003
Rommel	D187		Bath Iron Wks, USA	22.8.1967	1.2.1969	2.5.1970	stricken 6.1999

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	3370
Displacement full, t	4717
Length, m	128.1 wl 134.4 oa
Breadth, m	14.4
Draught, m	4.50
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 sets General Electric geared steam turbines, 4 Combustion Engineering boilers
Power, h. p.	70000
Max speed, kts	36
Fuel, t	oil 930
Endurance, nm(kts)	4500(20)
Armament	1 x 1 Tartar SAM (40 RIM-24B), 1 x 8 ASROC ASuR (8 RUR-5A), 2 x 1 - 127/54 Mk 42, 2 x 3 - 324 TT
Electronic equipment	SPS-52, SPS-40, SPS-10, 2x SPG-51, SPG-53 radars, SQS-23 sonar, WLR-6 ECM suite, SATIR I CCS
Complement	333

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Project history

Thee Type 103 destroyers were based on the USN family of 'Tartar guided-missile destroyers SCB 155' (Charles F. Adams class Mod 14). They stemmed from a US/German agreement of 11.5.1964; the USN ordered them as DDG28-30.

TheyI differ from the original Charles F. Adams class in having modified funnels with side exhausts, and different masts. Originally it was intended to build six ships in German shipyards, but three were ordered from Bath Iron Works.

Modernizations

1977, Lütjens; 1978, Mölders; 1980, Rommel under type 103A: boilers were modified to burn light oil; - 1 x 1 Tartar SAM; + 1 x 1 Standard SM-1MR SAM (40 RIM-66A)

1983, Mölders; 1986, Lütjens, Rommel under type 103B: - 1 x 1 Standard SM-1MR SAM, 2x SPG-51 radars, SQS-23 sonar, WLR-6 ECM suite; + 1 x 1 Harpoon SSM / Standard SM-1MR SAM (4 RGM-84A/C + 36 RIM-66A), 2x SPG-51C radars, DSQS-21B sonar, FL-1800S ECM suite, 2x SRBOC decoy RL

mid-1990s, all: - SPG-53 radar; + 2 x 21 RAM SAM (42 RIM-116A), 2 x 1 - 20/90 S.20, SPG-60, SPQ-9 radars, SLQ-25 torpedo decoy

Naval service

No significant events.