The Argentinean destroyer ARA Almirante Brown (D-10) leads in a formation during a leapfrog exercise

Almirante Brown class (MEKO 360H2 type) destroyers were all commissioned between 1983 and 1984 for the Argentine Navy. Bold textIn shipbuilding, MEKO refers to a family of warships developed by the German company Blohm + Voss. ... Argentine Navy Jack The Navy of the Argentine Republic (Armada de la República Argentina, ARA) is the navy of Argentina. ...

Specification

• Displacement: 1,790 tons full load
• Length: 413ft (125.9m)
• Beam: 49ft(15m)
• Draught: 19 ft(5.8m)
• Propulsion: 2 shafts; 2 RM-1C cruise gas turbines, 10,200 shp; 2 TM-3B boost gas turbines, 51,600 shp
• Speed: 30 knots
• Armament: 8 MM40 Exocet SSM, 1 8-cell Albatros SAM (24 Aspide missiles), 1 5/54 DP, 4 dual 40 mm AA, 2 12.7 mm Ms, 2 triple 12.75 inch torpedo tubes
• Aircraft: aft helicopter deck and hangar; 1 Alouette III
• Complement:224
• Radar: DA-08 A air/surface search
• Sonar: Krupp-Atlas 80 hull
• Fire Control: WM-25 gun control, STIR SAM control
• EW: Scimitar jammer, 2 SCALR, 1 Graseby G1738 towed
• Concept/Program: German-built general purpose frigates; the main strength of the Argentine navy.
• Builders: Blohm + Voss, Hamburg, Germany.
• Design: MEKO 360 modular design.

In older English literature there are some uses of exocet to mean flying fish. There is also a typeface known as Exocet. ... On April 5, 1877, Hermann Blohm and Ernst Voss founded the Blohm + Voss Schiffswerft und Maschinenfabrik shipbuilding and engineering works as a general partnership. ...

Ships in the class

• ARA Almirante Brown (D-10)
• ARA La Argentina (D-11)
• ARA Heroína (D-12)
• ARA Sarandí (D-13)

External links

• World Navies Today: Argentina