Mölders (D186) was one of three guided-missile destroyers, a modified version of the American , built for the Bundesmarine (West German Navy) during the 1960s.
Design and description
The Charles F. Adams class was based on a stretched Forrest Sherman-class destroyer hull modified to accommodate an RUR-5 ASROC Launcher and all their associated equipment. The ships had an overall length of , a beam of and a deep draft of . They displaced at full load. Their crew consisted of 333 officers and enlisted men.
They were armed with two 5-inch/54-caliber Mark 42 gun, one each forward and aft of the superstructure. The ships were fitted with an eight-round ASROC launcher between the funnels. Close-range anti-submarine defense was provided by two triple sets of Mk 32 torpedo tubes. The primary armament of the ships was the Tartar surface-to-air missile system designed to defend a carrier battle group. They were fired via the single-arm Mk 13 missile launcher and the ships stowed a total of 40 missiles for the launcher.