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USS Bulkeley (DDG 84)
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General Characteristics, Arleigh Burke class

  • Builder: Bath Iron Works, Huntington Ingalls Industries

  • Combat System Integrator: Lockheed-Martin

  • Date Deployed: July 4, 1991 USS Arleigh Burke (DDG 51)

  • Propulsion: Four General Electric LM 2500-30 gas turbines; two shafts,

    100,000 total shaft horsepower

  • Length: Flights I and II (DDG 51-78): 505 feet (153.92 meters); Flight IIA and III

    (DDG 79 AF): 509 1/2 feet (155.29 meters)

  • Beam: 59 feet (18 meters)

  • Displacement: 8,230 - 9,700 Ltons

  • Speed: In excess of 30 knots

  • Crew: 329 Total (32 Officer, 27 CPO, 270 Enlisted)

  • Armament: Standard Missile (SM-2MR); Vertical Launch ASROC (VLA) missiles;

    Tomahawk; six MK-46 torpedoes (from two triple tube mounts); Close In Weapon

    System (CIWS), 5-in. MK 45 Gun, Evolved Sea Sparrow Missile (ESSM)

  • Aircraft: (Flight IIA and III (DDG 79 AF)) Two LAMPS MK III MH-60 B/R

    helicopters with Penguin/Hellfire missiles and MK 46/MK 50 torpedoes

 
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