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Guided missile destroyer USS Higgins (DDG-76)

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Classification

Ship class:
Arleigh Burke-class destroyer
Type:
Guided missile destroyer

Basic information

Namesake:
Colonel William R. Higgins
Operator:
United States NavyUnited States Navy
Country of build:
Builder:
Bath Iron Works (BIW)Bath Iron Works (BIW)
Ordered:
Laid down:
Launched:
Commissioned (service):
Status:
Active
MMSI number:
368870000

Ship measurements

Displacement:
8,400 t
Length:
153.92 m
Beam:
18 m
Draft:
9.4 m

Machine

Propulsion system:
CODLAG (CODELAG)
Propulsion:
  • 3 * Allison AG9140 Generators (2,500 kW (3,400 hp) each, 440 V)
  • 4 * General Electric LM2500 gas turbines each generating 26,250 bhp (19,570 kW)
  • 2 * shafts, each driving a five-bladed reversible controllable-pitch propeller
  • Total output: 105,000 bhp (78,000 kW)
Speed:
30 knots
Range:
4,400 nautical miles at 20 knots (8,100 km at 37 km/h)

Personnel

Complement:
303

Combat assets

Boats & landing craft:
  • 2 * RHIB
Electronics:
  • AN/SPY-1D 3D radar
  • AN/SPS-67(V)2 surface-search radar
  • AN/SPS-73(V)12 surface-search radar
  • AN/SPG-62 fire-control radar
  • AN/SQS-53C sonar array
  • AN/SQR-19 tactical towed array sonar
  • AN/SQQ-28 LAMPS III shipboard system
  • AN/SLQ-32(V)2 Electronic Warfare System
  • AN/SLQ-25 Nixie Torpedo Countermeasures
  • MK 36 MOD 12 Decoy Launching System
  • MK 53 Nulka Decoy Launching System
  • AN/SLQ-39 CHAFF Buoys
Armament:
  • 1 * 5-inch (127 mm)/54 Mk. 45 Mod 1/2 (lightweight gun)
  • 2 * 20 mm Phalanx CIWS
  • 2 * Mk 141 Harpoon Anti-Ship Missile Launcher
  • 90-cell Mk 41 Vertical Launching System (VLS)
  • BGM-109 Tomahawk Land Attack Missile
  • RIM-66M Surface-to-Air Missile with an ASuW mode
  • RIM-156 Surface-to-Air Missile
  • RIM-161 Anti-Ballistic Missile
  • RUM-139 Vertical Launch ASROC
  • RIM-174A Standard ERAM
  • 2 * Mark 32 triple torpedo tubes:
  • Mark 46 torpedo
  • Mark 50 torpedo
  • Mark 54 Lightweight Torpedo
Aircraft:
  • Aviation facilities:
  • Flight deck only, but LAMPS III electronics installed on landing deck for coordinated helo ASW operations

USS Higgins (DDG-76) is a United States Navy Arleigh Burke-class (Flight II) Aegis guided missile destroyer. Higgins is the 26th ship of her class, and the 15th of the class to be built by Bath Iron Works of Bath, Maine. Construction began on 14 November 1996 and she was launched and christened on 4 October 1997. She was commissioned at a ceremony in Port Everglades, Florida on 24 April 1999. She is part of Destroyer Squadron 15 within the Seventh Fleet, and is homeported at United States Fleet Activities Yokosuka in Yokosuka, Japan.

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