Guided missile destroyer USS Delbert D. Black (DDG-119)

Guided missile destroyer USS Delbert D. Black (DDG-119) 2

Guided missile destroyer USS Delbert D. Black (DDG-119) 3

Classification

Ship class:

Arleigh Burke-class destroyer

Type:

Guided missile destroyer

Basic information

Namesake:

Master Chief Delbert Black

Operator:

United States Navy

Country of build:

United States

Builder:

Ingalls Shipbuilding

Ordered:

3 June 2013

Laid down:

1 June 2016

Launched:

8 September 2017

Commissioned (service):

26 September 2020

Status:

Active

Ship measurements

Displacement:

9,700 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:

31 knots

Range:

4,400 nautical miles at 20 knots (8,100 km at 37 km/h)

Personnel

Complement:

380

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 * 5-inch (127 mm)/62 Mk. 45 Mod 4 (lightweight gun)
1 * 20 mm Phalanx CIWS
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 Delbert D. Black (DDG-119) is an Arleigh Burke-class (Flight IIA Technology Insertion) Aegis guided missile destroyer of the United States Navy.

She is named in honor of Master Chief Petty Officer Delbert Black, the first Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy (MCPON), who died in 2000. He is remembered for establishing the role of the Navy's senior enlisted leader, and the ship naming is the culmination of a decade of advocacy by MCPONs to honor him with a combatant ship.