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Guided missile destroyer USS Arleigh Burke (DDG-51)

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Classification

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

Basic information

Namesake:
Arleigh Albert Burke
Operator:
United States NavyUnited States Navy
Country of build:
Builder:
Bath Iron Works (BIW)Bath Iron Works (BIW)
Ordered:
Laid down:
Launched:
Commissioned (service):
Status:
Active
MMSI number:
366986000

Ship measurements

Displacement:
8,315 t
Length:
153.92 m
Beam:
18 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:
30 knots
Range:
4,400 nautical miles at 20 knots (8,100 km at 37 km/h)

Personnel

Complement:
303

Combat assets

Boats & landing craft:
  • 2 * rigid hull inflatable boats
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)2 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)/54 Mk. 45 Mod 1/2 (lightweight gun)
  • 2 * 20 mm Phalanx CIWS
  • 2 * Mk 141 Harpoon Anti-Ship Missile Launcher
  • 90-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
  • 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:
  • Aviation facilities:
  • Flight deck only, but LAMPS III electronics installed on landing deck for coordinated helo ASW operations

USS Arleigh Burke (DDG-51), named for Admiral Arleigh A. Burke, USN (1901–1996), is the lead ship of the Arleigh Burke-class (Flight I) Aegis guided missile destroyers. She was laid down by the Bath Iron Works company at Bath, Maine, on 6 December 1988, launched on 16 September 1989 and commissioned on 4 July 1991.

Arleigh Burke's designers incorporated many lessons learned by the Royal Navy during the Falklands campaign and from the Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruisers. The Ticonderoga-class cruisers were becoming too expensive to continue building, and were too difficult to upgrade.[citation needed] Arleigh Burke was the first modern destroyer designed with features meant to lower its radar cross section, which improves a ship's ability to evade radar detection. She also uses a slightly downgraded version of the Aegis combat system, which allows for launching, tracking, and evading missiles simultaneously. Her all-steel construction provides good protection for her superstructure, while her Collective Protection System allows her to operate in environments contaminated by chemical, biological, or radiological materials.

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