Doraltic Naval Systems - Chery-class Destroyer

Class overview

Name	Chery class
Builders	Doraltic Naval Systems Viares
Operators	United Republics Navy
Preceeded by	Waalwijk and Felix Aue classes
Cost	$825m per ship in program
Built	2004
In Comission	2007
Planned	12, possibly up to 20
Active	8

General characteristics

Type	Destroyer
Displacement	6,500 t
Length	145 meters
Beam	20 meters
Draught	8 metres
Propulsion	CODLAG Click to show... 1x 32MW Kapolder Electric Works M2200 gas turbine 2x 2.5MW Lancet-Deckard electric motors 4x 2.2 MW diesel generators 2x shafts driving controllable pitch propellers
Speed	+30 knots
Range	6,800nmi at 15 knots
Complement	166
Crew	135, plus helicopter crews
Sensors	tbd
Aircraft	2x Helicopter/Tilt-Rotor
Armament	32-cell A43 VLS 32-cell A70 VLS 4 × torpedo tubes 5" main gun 6x .50 BMG guns
Defense	Inflatable Decoy System AADR Jamming Suite 1x Millennium Gun 1x SeaRAM launcher

The Chery-class is a class of multi-purpose frigates designed by Doraltic Naval Systems for the United Republics Navy. The lead ship of the class, Chery, was commissioned in May 2007 by the United Republics Navy. Currently, the Chery has not received attention from international navies and is reaching the end of the order made by the United Republics. It is expected to serve with the United Republics Navy into the late 2030s with a small hope for export to Gaeltic navies.

Designed after the Baetylus crisis, the United Republics Navy sought to begin the definitive replacement program for the aging Dufor Hill class guided-missile cruiser and the destroyers of the Waalwijk and Felix Aue classes. To this end, in 2002 Navy designers proposed three variants built with multi-mission modularity, the air defense variant (DDA), the anti-submarine warfare (ASW) variant, and a general-purpose/land-attack variant. As post-Baetylus budget concerns grew, the Navy was pushed into simplifying the mission profile of the class into a single variant, forcing the adoption of a combined general-purpose and air defense warship then dubbed the DXI, the twenty-first-century destroyer.

Construction on the class began in earnest in 2004 after Doraltic Naval Systems was contracted to build a new design which, to the best of their ability, broaden the scope of the GP/FREDA ("FREgates de Défense Aériennes", "Air defense frigate") design to retain anti-submarine capabilities.