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Aquila (PHM-4)



Call sign:
November - Victor - Mike - Zulu
Pegasus PHM-1 Class Patrol Combatant-Missile (Hydrofoil): Laid down, 10 July 1979 at Boeing Marine Systems, Seattle, Wash; Launched, 16 September 1981; Commissioned 26 June 1982; Decommissioned, 30 July 1993; Struck from the Naval Register, 30 July 1993; Sold for scrap 19 August 1996 by Defense Reutilization and Marketing Service.

Specifications: Displacement 178 t.(lt) , 255 t.(fl).; Length 133'; Beam 28'; Speed 12 kts. (Hullborne), 48 kts. (foilborn); Complement 21; Armament, one 76mm Mk 75 gun mount, eight Harpoon missiles: Propulsion two 1,600bhp Mercedes-Benz diesel engines and one 18,000shp General Electric LM2500 gas turbine, two water jets.

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for full size image		 Size Image Description Source
Aquila 69k U.S. Navy photo International Hydrofoil Society web site
Aquila 55k . Robert Hirst
Aquila 132k . Robert Hirst
Aquila 50k Moored at NAS Key West, FL, 11 August 1982 after her 5,000 mile voyage from Puget Sound, WA. Astern is
Taurus (PHM 3).
U.S. Navy photo NH 96680.		 Phyllis Moorhead.
Aquila 184k U.S. Navy photo from the February 1983 edition of All Hands magazine Joe Radigan
Aquila 121k 1 June 1984
The patrol combatant missile hydrofoil Aquila lies tied up at a wharf during Exercise UNITAS XXV. The USCGC Courageous (WMEC 622) is in the background.
Defense Visual Information photo DN-ST-90-01294 by JOCS Kirby Harrison		 Bill Gonyo
Aquila 104k 1 June 1984
Sailors man the rail in front of the 76 mm Mark 75 anti-aircraft gun on the patrol combatant missile hydrofoil Aquila.
Defense Visual Information photo DN-ST-90-01295 by JOCS Kirby Harrison		 Bill Gonyo
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