Arleigh Burke class destroyer

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The Arleigh Burke class of guided missile destroyers are built around the Aegis combat system and the SPY-1D multi-function phased array radar. The first ship was commissioned on 4 July 1991.

General Characteristics

Builders: General Dynamics, Bath Iron Works Division and Northrop Grumman Ship Systems
Power Plant: Four General Electric LM 2500-30 gas turbines; two shafts, 100,000 total shaft horsepower (75 MW).
SPY-1 Radar and Combat System Integrator: Lockheed Martin
Length
- Flights I and II (51-78): 505 ft (154 m)
- Flight IIA (79-99): 509* ft (155 m)
- Beam: 59 ft (18 m)
Displacement
- Hulls 51 through 71: 8315 tons full load
- Hulls 72 through 78: 8400 tons full load
- Hulls 79 and on: 9200 tons full load
Speed: in excess of 30 knots (56 km/h)
Aircraft: None. LAMPS III electronics installed on landing deck for coordinated DDG-51/helo ASW operations (hulls 51-78); two SH-60 Seahawk LAMPS III helos (hulls 79 on)
Complement: 23 officers, 300 enlisted
Armament: Standard missile; AGM-84 Harpoon; Vertical Launch ASROC (VLA) missiles; Tomahawk missiles; six Mk-46 torpedoes (from two triple tube mounts); one 5 inch (127 mm)/54-caliber Mk-45 (lightweight gun) (DDG-51 through 80); one 5 inch (127 mm)/62-caliber Mk-45 mod 4 (lightweight gun) (DDG-81 on); two 20 mm Phalanx CIWS (DDG-51 through 83); two RIM-116 Rolling Airframe Missile (DDG-84 on)
Date Deployed: 4 July, 1991 (USS Arleigh Burke)

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