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GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS, ARLEIGH BURKE CLASS

  • Builder General Dynamics Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine

  • Propulsion system: 4 - LM2500 GE Marine Gas Turbines

  • Propellers: two

  • Length, overall: 509.5 - 513.0 feet

  • Beam: Max 66 feet

  • Draft: 31 feet

  • Displacement: 9,192-9,217 tons full load

  • Speed: 31 knots

  • Aircraft: two SH-60B/R/F (LAMPS MK III) helicopters

  • Armament:1 MK-45 MOD 4 5"/62 caliber lightweight gun

  • 1 MK-15 20mm Phalanx CIWS

  • 2 MK-38 MOD 2 25mm Machine Gun System (MGS)  

  • 2 MK-41 VLS (96 cells) for Standard Missiles, Anti-Submarine

    Rocket (ASROC), Tomahawk ASM/LAM and RIM-162 ESSM

  • 2 MK-32 MOD 15 triple torpedo tubes (six MK 50/46 MOD 5A Torpedoes)

 
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