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Guided missile destroyer USS Richard G. Lugar (DDG-136)

Guided missile destroyer USS Richard G. Lugar (DDG-136) 0

Classification

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

Basic information

Namesake:
Senator Richard G. Lugar
Operator:
United States NavyUnited States Navy
Country of build:
Builder:
Bath Iron Works (BIW)Bath Iron Works (BIW)
Ordered:
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 Richard G. Lugar (DDG-136) is a planned Arleigh Burke-class (Flight III) Aegis guided missile destroyer of the United States Navy, the 86th overall for the class. She will be named in honor of Richard G. Lugar, a Republican United States Senator who represented Indiana. He served in the United States Navy from 1957 to 1960 and achieved the rank of Lieutenant Junior Grade. She was officially named by Secretary of the Navy Richard V. Spencer during a ceremony 18 November 2019 at the Indiana War Memorial in Indianapolis.

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