Oliver Hazard Perry-class Frigate

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## Oliver Hazard Perry-class

an Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigate, USS Gary

### Operators

Turkey, Bahrain, Taiwan, Egypt, Pakistan, Poland, Spain, Chile (current), Australia, USA (former)

### Derivatives

Santa Maria-class, Cheng Kung-class

The ***Oliver Hazard Perry* class** is a class of guided-missile frigates named after U.S. Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry, the hero of the naval Battle of Lake Erie. Also known as the *Perry* or FFG-7 (commonly "fig seven") class, the warships were designed in the United States in the mid-1970s as general-purpose escort vessels inexpensive enough to be bought in large numbers to replace World War II-era destroyers and complement 1960s-era *Knox*-class frigates.

In Admiral Elmo Zumwalt's "high low fleet plan", the FFG-7s were the low-capability ships, with the *Spruance*-class destroyers serving as the high-capability ships. Intended to protect amphibious landing forces, supply and replenishment groups, and merchant convoys from aircraft and submarines, they were also later part of battleship-centered surface action groups and aircraft carrier battle groups/strike groups. 55 ships were built in the United States: 51 for the United States Navy and four for the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). Eight were built in Taiwan, six in Spain, and two in Australia for their navies. Former U.S. Navy warships of this class have been sold or donated to the navies of Bahrain, Egypt, Poland, Pakistan, Taiwan, and Turkey.

The first of the 51 U.S. Navy-built *Oliver Hazard Perry* frigates entered into service in 1977, and the last remaining in active service, USS *Simpson*, was decommissioned on 29 September 2015. The retired vessels were mostly mothballed with some transferred to other navies for continued service and some used as weapons targets and sunk. Some of the U.S. Navy's frigates, such as USS *Duncan* (14.6 years in service), had fairly short careers, while a few lasted as long as 30+ years in active U.S. service, with some lasting even longer after being sold or donated to other navies. In 2020, the Navy announced the new *Constellation* class as their latest class of frigates.

### Armament

#### Missiles

* RIM-66 Standard
* RGM-84 Harpoon

#### Guns

* Mk 38 Machine Gun System
* OTO Melara
* 20mm Phalanx

#### Torpedoes

* Mark 46 Torpedo
* Mark 50 Torpedo

### Ships in Class

* USS Oliver Hazard Perry
* USS McInerney
* USS Wadsworth
* USS Duncan
* USS Clark
* USS George Philip
* USS Samuel Eliot Morison
* USS Sides
* USS Estocin
* USS Clifton Sprague
* HMAS Adelaide
* HMAS Canberra
* USS John A. Moore
* USS Antrim
* USS Flatley
* USS Fahrion
* USS Lewis B. Puller
* USS Jack Williams
* USS Copeland
* USS Gallery
* USS Mahlon S. Tisdale
* USS Boone
* USS Stephen W. Groves
* USS Reid
* USS Stark
* USS John L. Hall
* USS Jarrett
* USS Aubrey Fitch
* HMAS Sydney
* USS Underwood
* USS Crommelin
* USS Curts
* USS Doyle
* USS Halyburton
* USS McClusky
* USS Klakring
* USS Thach
* HMAS Darwin
* USS De Wert
* USS Rentz
* USS Nicholas
* USS Vandegrift
* USS Robert G. Bradley
* USS Taylor
* USS Gary
* USS Carr
* USS Hawes
* USS Ford
* USS Elrod
* USS Simpson
* USS Reuben James
* USS Samuel B. Roberts
* USS Kauffman
* USS Rodney M. Davis
* USS Ingraham
* HMAS Melbourne
* HMAS Newcastle
* SPS Santa Maria
* SPS Victoria
* SPS Numancia
* SPS Reina Sofia
* SPS Navarra
* SPS Canaria
* ROCS Cheng Kung
* ROCS Cheng Ho
* ROCS Chi Kuang
* ROCS Yueh Fei
* ROCS Tzu I
* ROCS Pan Chao
* ROCS Chang Chien
* ROCS Tian Dan