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USS Mustin (DDG-89)

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<em>USS Mustin (DDG-89)</em> being pushed into place by a tugboat at Allegheny Pier at Naval Air Station Pensacola
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Ordered: 6 March 1998
Laid down: 15 January 2001
Launched: 12 December 2001
Commissioned: 26 July 2003
Decommissioned:
Fate: Active in service
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:

The second USS Mustin (DDG 89) is an Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer named in honor of the Mustin family. The contract to build her was awarded to Ingalls Shipbuilding on 6 March 1998. Her keel was laid down on 15 January 2001, she was launched on 12 December 2001, and commissioned July 26, 2003.

General Characteristics

See USS Mustin for other ships of the same name.

This article includes information collected from the Naval Vessel Register.


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