USS Aries PHM-5

USS Aries PHM-5

SHIP'S CHARACTERISTICS
Class of Ship: PHM-3 Taurus Class
Awarded: October 20, 1977
Keel laid: January 7, 1980
Launched: November 5, 1981
Commissioned: September 18, 1982
Decommissioned: July 30, 1993
Builder: Boeing, Seattle, WA
Length: (foils extended): 133 feet
Beam: (less foils): 28 feet
Draft: (foils retracted): 7.2 ft. (foils extended): 23.3 ft. (foilborne): 3 - 10 ft.
Displacement: Approx. 255 tons full load
Complement: Officers 4 Enlisted 19
Propulsion: Foilborne: One 18,000 shp General Electric LM-2500 marine gas turbine coupled to a water jet propulsor.
Hullborne: Two 1,600 bhp MTU V-8 diesel engines each producing 818 metric horsepower coupled to two water jet propulsors.
Weapons: Eight RGM-84 Harpoon missiles contained in two MK-140 quad launchers ~ Range: 50 nm ~ Warhead: 488 lbs.
One MK-75 76mm/62 caliber rapid fire OTO Melara gun ~ Range: 10 nm ~ Rate of Fire: 80 rounds per minute.
Speed: Foilborne, in excess of 48 knots; Hullborne, 12 knots
Sensors: LN-66 Navigation Radar; MK-92 Mod. 1 Fire Control System
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