General Characteristics, Arleigh Burke class
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Builder: Bath Iron Works, Huntington Ingalls Industries
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Combat System Integrator: Lockheed-Martin
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Date Deployed: July 4, 1991 USS Arleigh Burke (DDG 51)
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Propulsion: Four General Electric LM 2500-30 gas turbines; two shafts, 100,000 total shaft
horsepower
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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)
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Beam: 59 feet (18 meters)
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Displacement: 8,230 - 9,700 Ltons
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Speed: In excess of 30 knots
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Crew: 329 Total (32 Officer, 27 CPO, 270 Enlisted)
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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)
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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