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GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS, ARLEIGH BURKE CLASS

  • Builder: Bath Iron Works

  • SPY-1 Radar and Combat System Integrator: Lockheed Martin

  • Date Launched: March 19, 1988

  • Propulsion: Four General Electric LM 2500 gas turbines; two shafts, 86,000 total shaft

    horsepower

  • Length: 567 feet

  • Beam: 55 feet

  • Displacement: Approximately 9500 long tons

  • Speed: In excess of 30 knots.

  • Crew: With Air Detachment (Includes 2 MH-60R Helicopters), ~50 Officers and ~350 Enlisted Sailors

  • Armament: 2x61 Mk41 Vertical Launch Systems to include SM-2 BLK III, SM-2 BLK IIIA, SM-2 BLK

    IIIB, SM-6, ESSM, RGM-84 Harpoon Missiles, 2x5in (127mm)/62 caliber Mark 45 lightweight

    guns, 2xMk38 25mm Machine Guns, 2-4 .50 cal. M2HB machine guns, 2xPhalanx CIWS Block 1B,

    2xMk32 Torpedo Tubes (Mk54 and Mk 48 ADCAP Torpedo capable)

  • Aircraft: 2xLAMPS Mk III MH-60R Helicopters with Hellfire missiles, Mk 46/Mk 50 torpedoes, .50

    cal machine guns, m240 machine guns

 
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