HMNZS Te Mana (F111)

HMNZS Te Mana, June 2022
History
New Zealand
Name	HMNZS Te Mana
Namesake	The concept of Mana
Builder	Tenix Defence
Laid down	18 May 1996
Launched	10 May 1997
Sponsored by	Dame Te Atairangikaahu
Commissioned	10 December 1999
Identification	MMSI number: 512000700
Motto	Kokiri Kia U (Māori: "Striving towards perfection")
Status	Active as of 2024
General characteristics
Class and type	Anzac-class frigate
Displacement	3,600 tonnes full load
Length	118 m (387 ft 2 in)
Beam	15 m (49 ft 3 in)
Draught	4 m (13 ft 1 in)
Propulsion	1 × General Electric LM2500+ gas turbine providing 30,000 hp (22,000 kW) 2 × MTU 12V1163 TB83 diesel engines providing 8,840 hp (6.5 MW) two shafts with controllable pitch propellers in CODOG configuration
Speed	27 knots (50 km/h; 31 mph)
Range	6,000 nmi (11,000 km; 6,900 mi) at 18 knots (33 km/h; 21 mph)
Complement	178 officers and ratings (25 officers, 153 ratings)
Sensors and processing systems	Sonars: Broadband Sonar Advanced Processing System (BSAPS) for the Spherion B hull-mounted sonar and the TUUM-6 multi-channel Digital Underwater Communication System (DUWCS).[1] Provision for towed array Air search radar: Thales Group Smart-S Mk2 3d multi-beam naval search radar. Surface search radar: Thales Group Smart-S Mk2 3d multi-beam naval search radar. Sharpe Eye 2D. Navigation: Two Furuno 3320 series X band radars.[1] Infred: Vampir IRST Infred. Laser: Elbit Systems Laser Warning/Detection.
Electronic warfare & decoys	ESM: Eibit/Elisra ESM. Countermeasures: Decoys: G & D Aircraft SRBOC Mk 36 Mod 1 decoy launchers for SRBOC. Rheinmetall MASS. DLF Floating Decoys. Sea Sentor.
Armament	Guns and missiles: 1 × 5 in/54 (127 mm) Mk 45 Mod 2 gun. 1 × Phalanx CIWS 8 × M2 .50 Cal Browning machine guns (2 are Mini Typhoon) 20 GWS.35 VLS cells for Sea Ceptor surface-to-air missiles AGM-119 Mk 2 Mod 7 Penguin missile launched from SH-2G(I) Super Seasprite Torpedoes: 2 × triple 324 mm Mk 32 Mod 5 tubes or launched from SH-2G(I) Super Seasprite Fire control: Navantia fire control Combat data systems: CMS 330 Link 16 Weapons control: CMS 330 Navantia fire control
Aircraft carried	One Kaman SH-2G Super Seasprite helicopter

HMNZS Te Mana (F111) is one of ten Anzac-class frigates and one of two serving in the Royal New Zealand Navy (RNZN). The name Te Mana is Māori, approximately translating as 'status' or 'authority' (for further information on this term, see Mana). The ship was laid down under the joint Anzac project by Tenix Defence at Williamstown, Victoria in 1996, launched in 1997, and commissioned into the RNZN in 1999.

In 2003 and 2004 and 2013–2014, Te Mana was deployed on operations in the Arabian Sea. In 2005, she became the first New Zealand warship to visit a Russian port, Vladivostok.

On 5 August 2015, the ship emerged from the dry dock at Devonport Naval Base wearing the US Navy 'Haze Grey' coating, following a major systems upgrade which involved a long refit.

Te Mana represented New Zealand in the 2018 Rim of the Pacific exercise in Hawaii^[2] and was crowned the winner of RIMPAC's Naval Surface Fire Support Rodeo competition, with the ship landing her shells closer to the target than any other ship.^[3]