Type 44 Destroyer

The Type 44 Destroyers (or Daring-class) were a class of twenty guided missile destroyers that entered service in the 1990s and early 2000s. In the mid-1990s, the Polish Navy ordered six Type 44 destroyers.

The Type 44s are basically a slightly stretched version of the OTL Type 45s if they entered service in the early 1990s.

Specifications

• Type: Destroyer
• Service Period: 1991-
• Characteristics:
  • Length: 510 feet (155.45 meters)
  • Beam: 69 feet 7 inches (21.21 meters)
  • Draft: 24 feet 3 inches (7.4 meters)
  • Displacement: 9,370 tons
• Crew: 300
• Propulsion: 4 x Rolls-Royce Olympus TM3B gas turbines, 4 x Wärtsilä 12V200 diesel generators, 4 x shafts
• Range: 7,000 nautical miles (12,964 kilometers) at 18 knots (33.34 km/h)
• Speed; 30 knots (55.56 km/h)
• Sensor Suite:
  • Type 986 Phased Array RDF
  • Type 996 Mod 1 E/F-band Surface Search Radar
  • Type 1006 I-band Navigation RDF
  • Type 1022 D-band Air Search RDF
  • Type 911 Fire Control RDF x 2
  • Type 2050 Bow ASDIC
  • Type 2031Z towed array ASDIC
  • Command System DNA(1)
• Countermeasures:
  • Sea Gnat Decoy System
  • Type 182 Towed Torpedo Decoys
  • Scorpion Electronic Counter Measures
  • UAF-1 ESM Jammer
• Armament:
  • 1 x 155mm/52-caliber Mk.IV naval gun
  • 1 x 64-cell VLS (fires GWS.27 Sea Wolf, GWS.31 Sea Dart Mk.II, VL-Orca, and Storm Wind cruise missiles)
  • 1 x 32-cell VLS (fires GWS.27 Sea Wolf, GWS.31 Sea Dart Mk.II, VL-Orca, and Storm Wind cruise missiles)
  • 2 x 4-cannister Broadsword AShM Launchers
  • 2 x 12.75" triple torpedo tubes (fires Sting Ray torpedoes)
  • 2 x 30mm Goalkeeper CIWS

• Aircraft Carried: 1 x Agusta-Westland Merlin or 2 x Westland Lynx
• Aviation Facilities: Flightdeck, Enclosed Hangar, and Beartrap helicopter Recovery System

Unit Run

Royal Navy

• HMS Daring (DM 127)
• HMS Dauntless (DM 128)
• HMS Diamond (DM 129)
• HMS Dragon (DM 130)
• HMS Defender (DM 131)
• HMS Duncan (DM 132)
• HMS Devastation (DM 133)
• HMS Dasher (DM 134)
• HMS Dolphin (DM 135)
• HMS Discovery (DM 136)
• HMS Daedalus (DM 137)
• HMS Dominion (DM 138)
• HMS Diadem (DM 139)
• HMS Defiance (DM 140)
• HMS Dryad (DM 141)
• HMS Destiny (DM 142)
• HMS Diomede (DM 143)
• HMS Druid (DM 144)
• HMS Destruction (DM 145)
• HMS Dagger (DM 146)

Polish Navy

• ORP Generał Kazimierz Pułaski (DM 275)
• ORP Generał Tadeusz Kościuszko (DM 276)
• ORP General Janusz Głuchowski (DM 277)
• ORP Kontradmiral Romuald Nałęcz-Tymiński (DM 278)
• ORP Wiceadmiral Józef Unrug (DM 279)
• ORP General Haller (DM 280)
• ORP General Michał Karaszewicz-Tokarzewski (DM 281)