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USS Barry (DDG-52)

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Ordered: 26 May 1987
Laid down: 26 February 1990
Launched: 10 May 1991
Commissioned: 12 December 1992
Decommissioned:
Fate: Active in service
Homeport: Norfolk, Virginia
Struck:
General Characteristics
Displacement: 8,315 tons
Length: 505 ft
Beam: 66 ft
Draught: 31 ft
Propulsion: 4 x General Electric LM 2500-30 gas turbines, 2 shafts, 100,000 shp
Speed: 30+ knots
Range:
Complement: 337 officers and enlisted
Armament: 1 x 29 cell, 1 x 61 cell Mk 41 vertical launch systems, 90 x RIM-67 SM-2, BGM-109 Tomahawk or RUM-139 VL-Asroc, missiles
1 x 5 in, 2 x 25 mm, 4 x 12.7 mm guns, 2 x Phalanx CIWS
2 x Mk 46 triple torpedo tubes
Aircraft: 1 SH-60 Sea Hawk helicopter can be embarked
Motto: Strength and Diversity

USS Barry (DDG-52) is an a Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer, commissioned in 1992. Built by Ingalls Shipbuilding in Pascagoula, Mississippi, Barry is homeported in Norfolk, Virginia and serving as of 2004.

In 2004, Barry participated at the annual Fleet Week in New York City.

See USS Barry for other ships of this name.

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This article includes information collected from the Naval Vessel Register.


Arleigh Burke-class destroyer
Arleigh Burke | Barry | John Paul Jones | Curtis Wilbur | Stout | John S. McCain | Mitscher | Laboon | Russell | Paul Hamilton | Ramage | Fitzgerald | Stethem | Carney | Benfold | Gonzalez | Cole | The Sullivans | Milius | Hopper | Ross | Mahan | Decatur | McFaul | Donald Cook | Higgins | O'Kane | Porter | Oscar Austin | Roosevelt | Winston S. Churchill | Lassen | Howard | Bulkeley | McCampbell | Shoup | Mason | Preble | Mustin | Chafee | Pinckney | Momsen | Chung-Hoon | Nitze | James E. Williams | Bainbridge | Halsey | Forrest Sherman | Farragut | Kidd | Gridley | Sampson | Truxtun | Sterett | Dewey

List of destroyers of the United States Navy