Guided missile destroyer USS Farragut (DDG-99)

Guided missile destroyer USS Farragut (DDG-99) 2

Guided missile destroyer USS Farragut (DDG-99) 3

Classification

Ship class:

Arleigh Burke-class destroyer

Type:

Guided missile destroyer

Basic information

Namesake:

Admiral David Farragut

Operator:

United States Navy

Country of build:

United States

Builder:

Bath Iron Works (BIW)

Ordered:

6 March 1998

Laid down:

9 January 2004

Launched:

23 July 2005

Commissioned (service):

10 June 2006

Status:

Active

MMSI number:

369993000

Ship measurements

Displacement:

9,500 t

Length:

155.29 m

Beam:

20 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:

323

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)3 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 * 20 mm Phalanx CIWS
1 * 5-inch (127 mm)/62 Mk. 45 Mod 4 (lightweight gun)
2 * 25 mm Mk 38 Autocannons
96-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
RIM-162 ESSM quadpacked configuration
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:

2 * SH/MH-60R Seahawk LAMPS III helicopters
Aviation facilities:
Flight deck and enclosed hangars for two MH-60R LAMPS III helicopters

USS Farragut (DDG-99) is an Arleigh Burke-class (Flight IIA) Aegis guided missile destroyer in the United States Navy. She is the fifth Navy ship named for Admiral David Farragut (1801–1870), and the 49th ship of the Arleigh Burke class.

Farragut's keel was laid down on 9 January 2004 at the Bath Iron Works in Bath, Maine. She was christened on 23 July 2005, with Senator Susan Collins of Maine as her sponsor. Farragut was commissioned on 10 June 2006 in Mayport, Florida.

Farragut is equipped with the «Smart Ship» data distribution and control system.