Guided missile destroyer USS Truxtun (DDG-103)
Basic information
Ship measurements
Machine
- 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)
Personnel
Combat assets
- 2 * RHIB
- 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
- 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
- 2 * SH/MH-60R Seahawk LAMPS III helicopters
- Aviation facilities:
- Flight deck and enclosed hangars for two MH-60R LAMPS III helicopters
USS Truxtun (DDG-103) is an Arleigh Burke-class (Flight IIA) Aegis guided missile destroyer currently in service with the United States Navy. She is named for American Naval hero, Commodore Thomas Truxtun (1755–1822), one of the first six commanders appointed by George Washington to the newly formed U.S. Navy. She is the sixth U.S. naval warship to bear his name. Truxtun's keel was laid down on 11 April 2005. During construction at Ingalls Shipbuilding, Pascagoula, Mississippi, she suffered a major electrical fire on 20 May 2006, engulfing two levels and causing damage estimated to be worth millions of dollars. She was launched on 17 April 2007, then christened on 2 June 2007 in Pascagoula, with Truxtun descendants Susan Scott Martin and Carol Leigh Roelker serving as sponsors, and commissioned on 25 April 2009 in Charleston, South Carolina. As of July 2020 the ship is part of Destroyer Squadron 26 based out of Naval Station Norfolk.
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