Guided missile destroyer USS J. William Middendorf (DDG-138)
Basic information
Namesake:
John William Middendorf
Operator:
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Ship measurements
Displacement:
9,700 t
Length:
155.29 m
Beam:
20 m
Draft:
9.4 m
Machine
Propulsion system:
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 J. William Middendorf (DDG-138) is a planned Arleigh Burke-class (Flight III) Aegis guided missile destroyer of the United States Navy, the 88th overall for the class. She will honor J. William Middendorf, a former Secretary of the Navy and US Ambassador to the Netherlands. The name was announced 10 June 2022.
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