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HMAS Collins (SSG 73)

HMAS Collins (SSG 73):HMAS Collins %28SSG 73%29
Career (Australia) HMAS Collins (SSG 73):Royal Australian Navy Ensign

<tr valign=top><td>Ordered:</td><td>?</td></tr>

Laid down: 14 February 1990
Launched: 28 August 1993

<tr valign=top><td>Commissioned:</td><td>27 July 1996</td></tr>

Status: Active in service

<tr valign=top><td>Homeport:</td><td>Fleet Base West</td></tr>

General Characteristics
Displacement: Surfaced: 3,051 tonnes
Submerged: 3,353 tonnes
Length: 77.8 metres
Beam: 7.8 metres

<tr valign=top><td>Draught:</td><td>6.8 metres</td></tr><tr valign=top><td>Propulsion:</td><td>1 × Jeumont Schneider main motor
7,050 hp (5.25 MW)
3 × Hedemora/Garden Island Type V18B/14 diesels
6,000 hp (4.42 MW)
3 × Jeaumont Schneider generators
5,630 hp (4.2 MW)
1 × shaft and a skew back propeller
1 × Mactaggart Scott dm 43006 hydraulic motor for emergency propulsion</td></tr>

Speed: Surfaced: 10+ knots (18.5 km/h)
Submerged: 20+ knots (37 km/h)

<tr valign=top><td>Range:</td><td>11,500 miles (at 10 knots surfaced)
9000 miles (at 10 knots snorting)
400 miles (at 4 knots dived)</td></tr>

Complement: 45 (8 Officers)<tr valign=top><td>Sensors and processing systems:</td><td>Thales underwater systems scylla bow sonar
Thales Underwater Systems GEC-Marconi Kariwara, Thomson Marconi Narama towed array or Allied Signal TB 23
Kelvin Hughes I-band navigation radar
Thales optronics CK043 search and CH093 attack periscopes
Anechoic tiles fitted</td></tr><tr valign=top><td>Electronic warfare and decoys:</td><td>Edo ES-5600 ESM, Argo AR-740
Strachan and Henshaw SSDE</td></tr><tr valign=top><td>Armament:</td><td>Boeing/Rockwell integrated system
McDonnell Douglas UGM-84 Harpoon
6 × 21 in (533 mm) tubes for sub harpoon and Gould Mark 48 torpedo - total of 22 carried
44 mines in lieu of torpedoes
Fitted for but not with Land Attack Cruise missiles with combat system AN/BYG 1

To be fitted :

US Mk 48 ADCAP
Combat System AN/BYG 1 based on Raytheon's CCS Mk 2</td></tr><tr valign=top><td>Motto:</td><td>Vanguard</td></tr><tr valign=top><td>Badge:</td><td>HMAS Collins (SSG 73):Image:Collins_badge.gif</td></tr>

HMAS Collins [1] (SSG 73), named for Vice Admiral Sir John Collins (1899-1989), is a Collins class submarine laid down by the Australian Submarine Corporation at Osborne in South Australia on 14 February 1990, launched on 28 August 1993 and commissioned on 27 July 1996. Jane's Fighting Ships states that the Collins has been modifed to support special forces operations.



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