HMCS Iroquois (DDH 280)
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| Career | Image:Naval Jack of Canada.svg |
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| Ordered: | mid 1960s |
| Laid down: | January 15, 1969 |
| Launched: | 28 November, 1970 |
| Commissioned: | July 29, 1972 |
| Decommissioned: | N/A |
| Fate: | In active service |
| General Characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 5150 tonnes |
| Length: | 129.9 metres |
| Beam: | 15.7 metres |
| Draught: | 6.9 metres |
| Propulsion: | two shafts, two Pratt & Whitney FT4-A2 gas turbines (37 megawatts at the shaft), two Allison 570-KF gas turbines (5.6 megawatts at the shaft) |
| Speed: | 29+ knots |
| Range: | 4500 nm at 20 knots |
| Complement: | 282 |
| Armament: | one 29-cell VLS (Standard SM-2MR Block IIIA), one 76 mm/62 OTO Melara (Super Rapid) DP, 0.5 in (12.7 mm) machine guns, 1 20 mm Close-In Weapons Systems, two triple Mark-46 12.75 in (324 mm) torpedo tubes firing Mark-46 Mod 5 torpedoes. |
| Aircraft: | 2 CH-124 Sea King helicopters |
| Motto: | Relentless In Chase |
HMCS Iroquois (DDG 280) is an Iroquois-class destroyer of the Canadian Navy.
See HMCS Iroquois for other ships of this name.
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