USS Chung-Hoon (DDG-93)

Career

Ordered:	6 March 1998
Laid down:	14 January 2002
Launched:	15 December 2002
Commissioned:
Decommissioned:
Fate:	Building
Struck:
General Characteristics
Displacement:	9,200 tons
Length:	509 ft 6 in
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:	380 officers and enlisted
Armament:	1 x 32 cell, 1 x 64 cell Mk 41 vertical launch systems, 96 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 Mk 46 triple torpedo tubes
Aircraft:	2 x SH-60 Sea Hawk helicopters
Motto:

USS Chung-Hoon (DDG-93) is an Arleigh Burke-class Aegis destroyer, named in honor of Rear Admiral Gordon Pai'ea Chung-Hoon (1910-1979), recipient of the Navy Cross for his courageous leadership after a devastating kamikaze attack in 1945 left several of his crew dead and his ship, USS Sigsbee (DD-502), severely crippled. The contract to build her was awarded to Northrop Grumman Ship Systems on March 6, 1998, and her keel was laid down on January 14, 2002, at Ingalls Shipbuilding, Incorporated. She was launched on January 11, 2003, sponsored by Michelle Punana Chung-Hoon, of Honolulu, Hawaii, Gordon Chung-Hoon's niece, and will be commissioned in 2004.

General Characteristics