Guided missile destroyer USS Ted Stevens (DDG-128)

Classification

Ship class:

Arleigh Burke-class destroyer

Type:

Guided missile destroyer

Basic information

Namesake:

Theodore Fulton Stevens Sr.

Operator:

United States Navy

Country of build:

United States

Builder:

Ingalls Shipbuilding

Ordered:

27 September 2018

Laid down:

9 March 2022

Status:

Under construction

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

Armor:

Kevlar-type armor with steel hull. Numerous passive survivability measures

Electronics:

AN/SPY-6 AESA 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 Ted Stevens (DDG-128) is a planned Arleigh Burke-class (Flight III) Aegis guided missile destroyer of the United States Navy, the 78th overall for the class. She will be named in honor of Ted Stevens, a U.S. Senator from Alaska who served the Senate for over 40 years and was a staunch supporter of both the Navy and the Marine Corps. Ted Stevens will be the third ship of the Flight III series.