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Arleigh Burke class destroyer
The
Arleigh Burke
class
of guided missile destroyers are built around the
Aegis combat system
and the SPY-1D multi-function phased array radar.
General Characteristics
Builders:
Bath Iron Works
and
Ingalls Shipbuilding
Power Plant: Four
General Electric
LM 2500-30 gas turbines; two shafts, 100,000 total shaft horsepower.
SPY-1 Radar and Combat System Integrator:
Lockheed Martin
Length
Flights I and II (51-78): 505 feet (153.92 meters)
Flight IIA (79-99): 509½ feet (155.29 meters)
Beam: 59 feet (18 meters)
Displacement
Hulls 51 through 71: 8315 tons full load
Hulls 72 through 78: 8400 tons full load
Hulls 79 and on: 9200 tons full load
Speed: in excess of 30 knots
Aircraft: None. LAMPS III electronics installed on landing deck for coordinated DDG-51/helo ASW operations
Complement: 23 officers, 300 enlisted
Armament:
Standard missile
;
AGM-84 Harpoon
; Vertical Launch
ASROC
(VLA) missiles;
Tomahawk missiles
; six Mk-46 torpedoes (from two triple tube mounts); one five-inch/54-caliber Mk-45 (lightweight gun); two 20mm
Phalanx CIWS
Date Deployed:
4 July
1991
(USS
Arleigh Burke
)
Ships
USS
Arleigh Burke
(DDG-51)[?]
USS
Barry
(DDG-52)[?]
USS
John Paul Jones
(DDG-53)[?]
USS
Curtis Wilbur
(DDG-54)[?]
USS
Stout
(DDG-55)[?]
USS
John S. McCain
(DDG-56)[?]
USS
Mitscher
(DDG-57)[?]
USS
Laboon
(DDG-58)[?]
USS
Russell
(DDG-59)[?]
USS
Paul Hamilton
(DDG-60)[?]
USS
Ramage
(DDG-61)[?]
USS
Fitzgerald
(DDG-62)[?]
USS
Stethem
(DDG-63)[?]
USS
Carney
(DDG-64)[?]
USS
Benfold
(DDG-65)[?]
USS
Gonzalez
(DDG-66)[?]
USS
Cole
(DDG-67)
USS
The Sullivans
(DDG-68)[?]
USS
Milius
(DDG-69)[?]
USS
Hopper
(DDG-70)[?]
USS
Ross
(DDG-71)[?]
USS
Mahan
(DDG-72)[?]
USS
Decatur
(DDG-73)[?]
USS
McFaul
(DDG-74)[?]
USS
Donald Cook
(DDG-75)[?]
USS
Higgins
(DDG-76)[?]
USS
O'Kane
(DDG-77)[?]
USS
Porter
(DDG-78)[?]
USS
Oscar Austin
(DDG-79)[?]
USS
Roosevelt
(DDG-80)[?]
USS
Winston S. Churchill
(DDG-81)
USS
Lassen
(DDG-82)[?]
USS
Howard
(DDG-83)[?]
USS
Bulkeley
(DDG-84)[?]
USS
McCampbell
(DDG-85)[?]
USS
Shoup
(DDG-86)[?]
USS
Mason
(DDG-87)[?]
USS
Preble
(DDG-88)[?]
USS
Mustin
(DDG-89)
USS
Chafee
(DDG-90)[?]
USS
Pinckney
(DDG-91)[?]
USS
Momsen
(DDG-92)[?]
USS
Chung-Hoon
(DDG-93)
USS
Nitze
(DDG-94)[?]
USS
James E. Williams
(DDG-95)[?]
USS
Bainbridge
(DDG-96)[?]
USS
Halsey
(DDG-97)[?]
USS
Forrest Sherman
(DDG-98)[?]
USS
Farragut
(DDG-99)[?]
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