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Australian Commonwealth Navy (ACN)

The Australian Commonwealth Navy



Historical Overview



Being an island nation, Australia has been reliant on naval strength for its protection even prior to its colonial inception. Many of the first aboriginal groups to arrive did so by travelling great distances aboard canoes, navigating through only guesswork and basic astronomy. There is much archaeological evidence of indigenous canoes protecting trade in what is now known as the Timor Sea, while the Torres Strait Islanders relied heavily on the sea for hunting, trading and transport. Centuries of explorations of Australia's seemingly endless coastline by British, French, Spanish and Dutch explorers provided maps and charts of the Great Southern Land. Early British and European settlement on the barren continent demanded ever increasing quantities of resources be shipped across the world by an endless stream of sailing ships. By the 1820s ships from the Royal Navy's East Indies Squadron were permanently based in Sydney, designated to patrol and further explore the immense coasts of Australia. In 1859 these were coalesced into the Royal Navy Australia Station, which quickly grew to replace the East Indies Squadron as the centrepiece of British naval power in the South Pacific. Alongside the Royal Navy station, the first of the formal colonial navies began to form. Tasmania and Victoria, feeling the need to support passenger and cargo ships crossing the treacherous Bass Strait and Tasman Sea, invested heavily in constructing modern albeit modest shipyards. Throughout the next three decades a motley collection of military vessels were built or acquired by the colonies as they grew in wealth. These ranged from expensive torpedo boats and breastwork monitors, such as the Childers and the Cerberus, to vintage sloops, schooners and gunboats. These ships were deployed across the world alongside the Royal Navy. Many were sent to New Zealand to ward off Maori attacks, while a handful found their way to Africa during the Boer Wars, or to China in the Boxer Rebellion.

At the time of Federation, the Australian Commonwealth Naval Forces (ACNF) found themselves with an impressive array of vessels by the standards of a newborn Dominion. Considerable elements of the Australia Station were handed over, being added to the number of the ever-growing colonial navies. Debates raged across Australia and the British Admiralty as to whether the ACNF should be moulded to fit a component of currently existing Royal Navy fleets, or should exist purely for the defence of Australia. Eventually, the decision was made that it would be both. A fleet powerful and flexible enough to secure Australia's coasts, while retaining the capability to project power alongside the Royal Navy. Due to the reforms which began in response to this, King George V in 1911 officially commissioned the ACNF as the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). The RAN received its flagship soon after, the battlecruiser HMAS Australia. The RAN was heavily engaged in many roles throughout the First World War. A flotilla retook control of German territories in New Guinea and the Pacific in the first days of the war. The light cruisers Sydney and Melbourne took part in numerous actions against German raiders and cruisers in the Indian Ocean. During the Gallipoli Campaign, several Australian ships took part in fire support and various other secondary roles, while the submarine AE2 made an unsuccessful attempt to navigate the Dardanelles to Constantinople. For much of the rest of the war RAN vessels were attached to Royal Navy fleets, conducting numerous actions across the world.

As relations between the Australian Commonwealth and the British Empire began to falter, several RAN assets overseas found themselves forcefully subsumed into the Royal Navy. As the British attempted to take direct control in Australia, several ships based at home were also requisitioned by RN crews. In the ensuing years of conflict many RAN sailors took part on both sides. As the dust settled in mid-1924 there was little of the briefly proud fleet remaining. Some ships had been scuttled or lost to air attacks, but most had simply been scrapped in desperation for steel. Those that remained were woefully unequipped for the confrontations with the Royal Navy that occurred across the eastern seaboard, collectively known as the Tasman Crisis. While the crisis threatened to bring about a new civil war, a series of bold maneuvers and an intervention by the United States brought the emergency to an end.

The Second World War saw a new lease of life given to the navy, as relations with Britain normalised and Japanese strength grew there was a sudden need for a strong Australian fleet in the South Pacific. While this saw numerous failures throughout the first years of the conflict with Japan and Germany, the ACN eventually grew to be a disproportionately sizeable portion of several allied fleets.

Ever since the end of the war in 1945 the Australian Navy has retained its dual roles of home defence and foreign expedition. Its ships have formed the bulk of several peacekeeping actions in Australia's peripheries. While it has committed substantial forces overseas in Korea, Vietnam, Malaysia, Iraq and several others.


Basic Information


Allegiance
The Commonwealth of Australia

Headquarters
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory

Engagements

• First World War (1914-1918)

• Australian War of Independence (1920-1921)

• Australian Civil War (1921-1923)

• Tasman Crisis (1924)

• Second World War (1939-1945)

• Indonesian Revolution (1945-1949)

• Malayan Emergency (1948-1960)

• Korean War (1950-1953)

• Borneo Confrontation (1963-1966)

• Papuan Conflicts (1962-1976)

• Vietnam War (1962-1973)

• First Gulf War (1990-1991)

• International Force East Timor (1999)

• East Timor Peacekeeping (2000-present)

• Afghanistan War (2001-present)

• Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands (2003-2017)

• Iraq War (2003-2009)

Commissioned Ships
65


Leadership


Commander-in-Chief
President Wayne Swan

Minister of Defense
The Honourable Richard Marles MP

Chief of Defense Force
General Angus Campbell

Chief of Navy
Vice Admiral Michael Noonan

Deputy Chief of Navy
Rear Admiral Christopher Smith

Australian Operational Fleet Commander
Rear Admiral Mark Hammond


Manpower


Military Age
16-55

Active Service
~18,500

Reservists
~4500


Equipment


Uniform


Vessels


Amphibious Assault Ships


Displacement: 35,467 tonnes full load
Length: 244 m
Beam: 38 m
Draft: 7.4 m
Propulsion:
Combined diesel and gas
1 × GE LM2500 gas turbine
2 × Navantia MAN 16V32/40 diesel generators
2 × Siemens Navantia azimuth thrusters
70,000 hp total
Speed: 24 knots (44 km/h)
Range: 19,000 km at 19 knots (35 km/h)
Boats & landing craft carried:
4 × LCU 1610
Or two LCU and two LCM-1E
Or 8 LCM-1E
Troops: 1700 (2 full strength battalions)
Complement: 36 officers, 293 sailors, 62 Army personnel and 3 FAAF
Armament:
1 x 8-cell Mark 41 VLS Sea Sparrow launcher
2 × Vulcan Phalanx
4 × 25 mm automatic cannons on Typhoon Mounts
6 × 12.7 mm machine guns on Mini-Typhoon Mounts
Aircraft carried: (Canberra and Adelaide)
12 MRH-90 Taipans
4 SH-60 ASW Seahawks
1-2 Sea Stallions
(Australia)
8 F-35B Lightnings
4 SH-60 ASW Seahawks
1-2 Sea Stallions
Aviation facilities: 240 x 38 m flight deck with 2 aircraft lifts
ACS Australia
ACS Canberra
ACS Adelaide

Destroyers


Displacement: 7000 tonnes full load
Length: 147.2 m
Beam: 18.6 m maximum
Draught: 5.17 m
Propulsion:
Combined diesel or gas (CODOG) arrangement
2 × General Electric Marine model 7LM2500-SA-MLG38 gas turbines, 23,500 hp each
2 × Caterpillar Bravo 16 V Bravo diesel engines, 7580 hp each
2 × controllable pitch propellers
Speed: Over 28 knots (52 km/h)
Range: Over 9300 km at 18 knots (33 km/h)
Complement:
186 crew, 16 aircrew
Accommodation for 234
Sensors and processing systems:
Aegis combat system
Lockheed Martin AN/SPY-1D(V) S-band radar
Northrop Grumman AN/SPQ-9B X-band pulse Doppler horizon search radar
Raytheon Mark 99 fire-control system with two continuous wave illuminating radars
2 × L-3 Communications SAM Electronics X-band navigation radars
Ultra Electronics Sonar Systems, hull mounted sonar and towed sonar
Ultra Electronics Series 2500 electro-optical director
Sagem VAMPIR IR search and track system
Rafael Toplite stabilised target acquisition sights
Electronic warfare & decoys:
ITT EDO Reconnaissance and Surveillance Systems ES-3701 ESM radar
SwRI MBS-567A communications ESM system
Ultra Electronics Avalon Systems multipurpose digital receiver
Jenkins Engineering Defence Systems low-band receiver
4 × Nulka decoy launchers
4 × 6-tube multipurpose decoy launchers
Armament:
48-cell Mark 41 Vertical Launch System (firing RIM-161 Standard Missile 3, RIM-174 Standard ERAM, RGM-109 Tomahawk and RIM-162 Evolved Sparrow)
2 × 4-canister Harpoon missile launchers
1 × Mark 45 5-inch gun
2 × Mark 32 Mod 9 two-tube torpedo launchers, Eurotorp MU90 torpedoes
2 × Phalanx CIWS
2 × 25mm M242 Bushmaster autocannons in Typhoon mounts
Aircraft carried: 1 x MH-60R Seahawk
Aviation facilities: Flight deck carrying one helicopter, enclosed hangar fitting two helicopters
ACS Hobart
ACS Brisbane
ACS Sydney
ACS Perth
ACS Darwin
ACS Mparntwe

Frigates


Displacement: 3600 tonnes full load displacement
Length: 109 m waterline length
118 m length overall
Beam: 14.8 m
Draught: 4.35 m at full load
Propulsion:
Combined Diesel or Gas (CODOG):
1 × General Electric LM2500-30 gas turbine, 30,172 hp (22,499 kW)
2 × MTU 12V1163 TB83 diesel engines, 8,840 hp (6,590 kW) each
2 × controllable-pitch propellers
Speed: 29 knots (54 km/h)
Range: 15,000 km at 18 knots (33 km/h)
Complement: 22 officers, 141 sailors and 16 air crew
Sensors and processing systems:
Radar:
Raytheon SPS-49(V)8 ANZ aerial search and long-range surveillance
Saab 9LV Combat Management System
Saab Sea Giraffe Target Indication Radar for air and surface search
Kelvin Hughes SharpEyeTM I-Bandl
Saab9LV 453 Ceros 200 Fire Control Radar and Continuous Wave Illuminator
Sonar:
ThomsonSintra Spherion B hull-mounted bow sonar
Petrel Mine and Obstacle Avoidance Sonar system
Fitted for but not with towed-array sonar
Other:
Cossor AIMS Mark XII identification-friend-or-foe system
Electronic warfare & decoys:
Mark 36 SRBOC launchers
SLQ-25A towed torpedo decoy
Nulka decoy launchers
Rascal Thorn modified Sceptre-A electronic support measures
Telefunken PST-1720 Telegon 10 radar intercept unit
Armament:
1 × 5-inch 54 calibre Mark 45 dual purpose gun
2 × 8-cell Mark 41 Mod 5 vertical launch system (16-cells total, firing RIM-174 Standard ERAM, RGM-109 Tomahawk and RIM-162 Evolved Sparrow)
2 × 12.7 mm M3 Browning Machine Guns on Mini-Typhoon mounts
2 × Mark 32 3-tube torpedo launchers, firing Mark 46 torpedoes
2 × Vulcan Phalanx CIWS
2 × 4-canister Harpoon missile launchers
Aircraft carried: 1 or 2 x Sikorsky MH-60R Seahawk helicopters
Aviation facilities: Flight deck carrying one helicopter, enclosed hangar fitting two helicopters
Armour: Welded GL-D36 steel
ACS Anzac
ACS Arunta
ACS Ballarat
ACS Pozieres
ACS French
ACS Surrey Hills
ACS Buna-Gona
ACS Warramunga
ACS Townsville
ACS Milne Bay
ACS Wewak
ACS Kokoda

Submarines


Displacement: 4500 tonnes (surfaced)
Length: 97 m
Beam: 8.8 m
Draft: 7.4 m (at waterline)
Propulsion:
Diesel electric with lead acid batteries
4 x diesel alternators
1 x 7 Megawatt permanent magnet motor, pump-jet
Speed: 15 knots (28 km/h) surfaced
28 knots (52 km/h) submerged
Range: 33,000 km at 12 knots (22 km/h) surfaced
24,000 km at 12 knots (22 km/h) at periscope depth
5000 km at 24 knots (44 km/h) submerged
Endurance: 90 days submerged, 100+ surfaced
Test Depth: 400 m
Complement: 60
12 clearance divers
Armament:
8 × 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes capable of launching up to 30 of the following:
SUBROC anti-submarine missiles
Mark 48 ADCAP torpedoes
Tomahawk cruise missiles
Harpoon anti-ship missiles
Mk III Stonefish mines
ACS Attack
ACS Farncomb
ACS Waller
ACS Dechaineux
ACS Sheean
ACS Rankin
ACS Platypus
ACS Barramundi
ACS Otama
ACS Otway
ACS Ovens
ACS Oxley

Landing and Replenishment Vessels


Displacement: 19,500 tonnes (full load)
Length: 174 m
Beam: 23 m
Draught: 8 m
Propulsion: 2 x diesel MAN 18V 40/45, 14,600 hp, single propeller shaft, controllable-pitch propeller
Speed: 20 knots (37 km/h)
Range: 11,000 km at 20 knots (37 km/h)
Capacity:
8920 cubic metres diesel
1585 cubic metres aviation fuel
280 tonnes munitions
500 tonnes general stores and cargo
Complement: 122
Sensors and processing systems: 2 × Kelvin Hughes Type 100G radars
EID ICCS integrated communications control system
Armament:
2 × 12.7 mm machine guns
1 × Phalanx Mk 15 close-in weapon systems
Aircraft carried: 2 x NHIndustries NH90 Medium Lift Utility Helicopters
Aviation facilities: Aft hangar and helipad for two helicopters
ACS Supply
ACS Stalwart


Displacement: 46,755 tonnes (full load)
Length: 191.3 m
Beam: 32 m
Draught: 11 m
Propulsion: 1 × Hyundai B&W6S50MC, 1 × shaft
Speed: 17 knots (31 km/h)
Capacity: 35,000 cubic metres of fuel
5500 cubic metres of aviation fuel
240 tonnes dry stores
Complement: 8 officers, 46 sailors
Armament: 5 x 12.7 mm Browning machine guns fitted on Typhoon Mounts
Aviation facilities: Helicopter landing platform, no permanent carrying capacity
ACS Sirius


Displacement:
3,353 tonnes (standard)
5,791 (full load)
Length: 127 m
Beam: 18.3 m
Draught: 4.9 m
Propulsion: 2 × Mirrlees Blackstone KDMR8 diesel engines, 9600 hp, 2 shafts
Speed: 18 knots (33 km/h)
Range: 15,000 km at 15 knots (28 km/h)
Boats & landing craft carried: 2 × LCM-8, 2 × LCVP, 2 x NLE pontoons
Capacity:
300 to 520 soldiers (long vs. short term)
1,300 tonnes of cargo or 330 lane metres of vehicles
Complement: 148, including 13 officers
Sensors and processing systems:
Kelvin Hughes Type 1006 surface search radar
Kelvin Hughes Type 1007 navigational radar
Armament:
2 × 12.7 mm machine guns
2 × Bofors 60 bow mounted guns
6 × 12.7 mm machine guns on Mini Typhoon mounts
Aviation facilities:
2 helicopter spots on main cargo deck
1 helicopter spot on rear flight deck
Both decks rated up to Chinook
ACS Tarakan
ACS Malaku
ACS Makassar
ACS Sarawak

Survey Ships


Displacement: 320 tonnes
Length: 36.6 m length overall
Beam: 13.7 m
Draught: 1.9 m
Propulsion: 2 Detroit V12 diesel engines
Speed: 12 knots (22 km/h)
Range: 3,300 km at 10 knots (19 km/h)
Endurance: 14 days
Complement: 3 officers, 11 sailors (plus accommodation for 4 additional)
Sensors and processing systems:
Radar:
JRC JMA-3710-6 navigational radar
Sonars:
ELAC LAZ 72 side-scan mapping sonar
Skipper 113 hull-mounted scanning sonar
Armament: None fitted
ACS Paluma
ACS Mermaid
ACS Shepparton
ACS Benalla


Displacement: 1970 tonnes
Length: 71.2 m
Beam: 15.2 m
Draught: 4.3 m
Propulsion:
4 × GEC Alsthom 6RK 215 generators, 2 x Alsthom electric motors, 2 shafts
1 × Schottel bow thruster
Speed: 13 knots (24 km/h)
Range: 133,000 km at 9 knots (17 km/h)
Complement: 10 officers, 46 sailors, up to 5 trainees
Sensors and
processing systems:
STN Atlas 9600 ARPA navigation radar; I-band
C-Tech CMAS 36/39; hull mounted high frequency active sonar
Atlas Fansweep-20 multibeam echo sounder
Atlas Hydrographic Deso single-beam echo sounder
Klein 2000 towed sidescan sonar array
Armament: 2 x 12.7 mm machine guns
Aircraft carried: Landing space for 1 x AS 350B Squirrel (not permanently embarked)
Aviation Facilities: Utility Deck
ACS Leeuwin
ACS Melville

Patrol Boats and Mine Warfare Craft


Displacement: 1640 tonnes
Length: 80 m
Beam: 13 m
Draught: 4 m
Propulsion: 2 x 5950 hp diesel engines
Speed: 22 knots (41 km/h)
Range: 7400 km
Endurance: 21 days
Complement: 40
Sensors and processing systems:
SAAB Situational Awareness System (SAS) with Saab EOS500 electro-optical fire control director, Terma SCANTER 6002 radar, Safran Vigy Engage electro-optical surveillance and fire control multisensor system
Armament:
1 x 40mm Oto Marlin 40 autocannon (on hold)
2 × 25 mm M242 Bushmaster autocannon on Typhoon mount
2 x .50 calibre machine guns
2 x 8.5 metre sea boats
1 x 10 metre sea boat
Aircraft carried: 1 or 2 x S-100 Camcopter UAVs, 1 x AS 350B Squirrel (not permanently embarked)
Aviation facilities: Utility deck
ACS Arafura
ACS Eyre
ACS Pilbura
ACS Gippsland


Displacement: 272 tons standard load
Length: 56.8 m
Beam: 9.7 m
Draught: 2.7 m
Propulsion: 2 × MTU 4000 16V 6225 hp diesels driving twin propellers
Speed: 25 knots (46 km/h)
Range: 5600 km at 12 knots (22 km/h)
Endurance: 21 days standard, 42 days maximum
Boats & landing
craft carried: 2 × Zodiac 7.2 m RHIBs
Complement: 21 crew standard, 29 crew maximum, maximum 150 persons onboard
Sensors and
processing systems: Bridgemaster E surface search/navigation radar
Electronic warfare
& decoys:
Prism III radar warning system
Toplite electro-optical detection system
Warrlock direction finding system
Armament:
1 × Rafael Typhoon stabilised gun mount fitted with a 25 mm M242 Bushmaster autocannon
2 × 12.7 mm machine guns
ACS Armidale
ACS Larrakia
ACS Bathurst
ACS Albany
ACS Pirie
ACS Maitland
ACS Ararat
ACS Broome
ACS Bundaberg
ACS Wollongong
ACS Childers
ACS Launceston
ACS Maryborough
ACS Gleneg


Displacement: 664 tonnes at full load
Length: 52.5 m
Beam: 9.9 m
Draught: 3 m
Propulsion:
1 × Fincantieri GMT BL230-BN diesel motor, 1985 hp, 1 x controllable-pitch propeller
3 × 120 hp Riva Calzoni azimuth thrusters with Combimac low magnetic electric motors
Speed:
14 knots (26 km/h) on diesel
6 knots (11 km/h) on thrusters
Range: 3000 km at 12 knots (22 km/h)
Endurance: 20 days
Complement: 6 officers and 34 sailors, plus up to 9 additional
Sensors and
processing systems:
Kelvin-Hughes Type 1007 navigational radar
GEC-Marconi Type 2093M variable-depth minehunting sonar
Electronic warfare
& decoys:
AWADI PRISM radar warning and direction-finding system
Radamec 1400N surveillance system
2 × Wallop Super Barricade decoy launchers
Armament:
1 × 30 mm DS30B rapid fire cannon
2 × 12.7 mm machine guns
2 × SUTEC Double Eagle mine disposal vehicles
ACS Huon
ACS Hawkesbury
ACS Norman
ACS Gascoyne
ACS Diamantina
ACS Yarra

Landing Craft


Displacement: 370 tonnes standard
526 tonnes full load
Length: 44.5 m
Beam: 10.1 m
Draught: 2 m
Propulsion: 2 × Caterpillar 3406E diesel engines
Speed: 10 knots (19 km/h)
Range: 5600 km unladen
2500 km with typical cargo load
Capacity: 183 tonnes of cargo
Complement: 16 crew
Sensors and processing systems: Racal Decca Bridgemaster I-band navigational radar
Armament:
2 x 12.7 mm (0.50 in) machine guns

Aircraft


Helicopters


Crew: 5 (pilot, co-pilot, crew chief/right door gunner, left gunner and rear gunner) (rear gunner not always aboard)
Passengers: 36 troops or 18 stretchers
Payload: 13,600 kg internal, 16,330 kg external
Length: 30.188 m
Height: 8.46 m
Empty Weight: 15,071 kg
Maximum Takeoff Weight: 33,339 kg
Powerplant: 3 × General Electric T64-GE-416/416A/419 turboshaft, 4380 hp each
Maximum Speed: 280 km/h
Cruise Speed: 222 km/h
Ferry Range: 1900 km
Range: 1000 km
Combat Range (fully-laden): 435 km
Service Ceiling: 5640 m
Rate of Climb: 13 m/s
Armament:
Guns: 2 x GAU-21 or FN MAG Doorguns
1 x GAU-21 or FN MAG Ramp mounted gun
Other: Chaff or flare dispensers


Crew: 4 (pilot, co-pilot, ASW operator, sensor operator)
Capacity: 20 troops
or 12 stretchers
or 2500 kg of cargo
4200 kg slung externally
Empty Weight: 6400 kg
Maximum Takeoff Weight: 10,600 kg
Length: 16.13 m
Powerplant: 2 × Rolls-Royce Turbomeca RTM322-1/9 turboshaft engines, 2417 hp each
Maximum Speed: 300 km/h
Range: 1000 km
Service Ceiling: 6000 m
Rate of Climb: 8 m/s
Armament:
2 x FN MAG Doorguns
4 Hardpoints on stub wings
Missiles: Up to 8 x AGM-114 Hellfire or 4 x AGM-65 Maverick
Torpedoes: 2 x Mark 54


Crew: 2 pilots, 2 ASW Systems operators
Passengers: 6 passengers in cabin, 4 stretchers
Cargo Capacity: 1900 kg stored internally, 2700 kg stored externally
Empty Weight: 6895 kg
Maximum Takeoff Weight: 10,400 kg
Length: 19.76 m
Fuselage Width: 2.36 m
Height: 5.13 m
Powerplant: 2 × General Electric T700-GE-701C turboshaft, 1890 hp each
Maximum Speed: 294 km/h
Cruising Speed: 280 km/h
Ferry Range: 2200 km
Combat Range: 592 km
Service Ceiling: 5790 m
Rate of Climb: 8.38 m/s
Armament:
Guns: M134 Minigun Doorgun or
2 x FN MAG Doorguns
4 Hardpoints on stub wings
Missiles: Up to 8 x AGM-114 Hellfire or 4 x AGM-65 Maverick
Torpedoes: 2 x Mark 54


Crew: 1-2 pilots
Capacity: 5 passengers
Empty Weight: 1174 kg
Maximum Takeoff Weight: 2250 kg
Length: 10.93 m
Height: 3.145 m
Powerplant: 1 × Turbomeca Arriel 2B turboshaft engine, 848 hp
Maximum Speed: 275 km/h
Range: 662 km
Service Ceiling: 4600 m
Rate of Climb: 8.5 m/s


Crew: 1-2 pilots
Capacity: 8 passengers
or 2 medical staff and 2 patients
or 1600 kg of cargo
Empty Weight: 1455 kg
Maximum Takeoff Weight: 2910 kg
Length: 10.2 m
Height: 3.51 m
Powerplant: 2 × Turbomeca Arrius 2B2 turboshaft engines, 633 hp each
Maximum Speed: 254 km/h
Range: 635 km
Service Ceiling: 6100 m
Rate of Climb: 7.62 m/s

V/STOL Combat Aircraft


Crew: 1
Length: 15.7 m
Wingspan: 11 m
Height: 4.4 m
Wing Area: 43 m²
Empty Weight: 13,290 kg
Loaded Weight: 22,471 kg
Maximum Takeoff Weight: 31,751 kg
Powerplant: 1 × Pratt & Whitney F135-PW-100 afterburning turbofan, 120 kN thrust dry, 190 kN with afterburner
Maximum Speed: Mach 1.8 (2223 km/h)
Ferry Range: 3900 km
Combat Range: 1450 km
Service Ceiling: 18,000 m
Rate of Climb: >250 m/s
Thrust/Weight: ~0.9-1
Wing Loading: 488 kg/m²
Armament:
Guns: 1 × 25 mm GAU-22/A 4-barrel rotary cannon, 180 rounds
Hardpoints: 10 In Total, 4 x Internal Weapon Stations, 6 x External Hardpoints 9600 kg total (2800 kg internal, 7000 kg external)
Air-to-Air Missiles: AIM-120 AMRAAM, AIM-132 ASRAAM
Air-to-Surface Missiles: AGM-65 Maverick, AGM-84H/K SLAM-ER, AGM-88 HARM, AGM-154 JSOW, AGM-158 JASSM, AGM-84 Harpoon, AGM-158C LRASM
Bombs: Paveway Series Smart-Bombs, JDAM Smart Bombs, Mk80 Series Bombs
Other Equipment: Up to 3 × 1800 L Sargent Fletcher drop tanks
Avionics: AN/APG-81 AESA radar
AAQ-40 E/O Targeting System (EOTS), AN/AAQ-37 Distributed Aperture System (DAS) MWS, AN/ASQ-239 Barracuda EWS, AN/ASQ-242 CNI suite, MADL communication system, Link 16 data link, SINCGARS, IFF interrogator and transponder, HAVE QUICK, AM, VHF, UHF AM, and UHF FM Radio, GUARD survival radio, radar altimeter, Instrument landing system, TACAN system, JPALS, TADIL-J JVMF/VMF

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