HMAS Adelaide (FFG 01) was the lead ship

Lead ship

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 of the Adelaide class

Adelaide class frigate

The Adelaide class is a ship class of six guided missile frigates constructed in Australia and the United States of America for service in the Royal Australian Navy. The class is based on the United States Navy's Oliver Hazard Perry class frigates, but modified for Australian requirements...

 of guided missile frigates built for the Royal Australian Navy

Royal Australian Navy

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, based on the United States Navy

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's Oliver Hazard Perry class

Oliver Hazard Perry class frigate

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 frigates. She was built in the United States of America and commissioned into the RAN in 1980.

During her career, Adelaide was part of Australian responses or contributions to the 1987 Fijian coups d'état, the Iraq invasion of Kuwait

Invasion of Kuwait

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, the Indonesian riots of May 1998, the INTERFET

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 peacekeeping taskforce, the War in Afghanistan

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, and the United States-led invasion of Iraq

2003 invasion of Iraq

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