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Welcome to the destroyer USS Thomas Hudner (DDG 116) official webpage.
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General Ship Characteristics: 

  • Bath Built, Best Built 

  • Keel Laid November 16, 2015 

  • Christened April 1, 2017 

  • Commissioned: December 1, 2018 (Boston, MA) 

  • Flight IIA Arleigh-Burke Class Guided Missile Destroyer 

  • 509.5 ft long 

  • 66 ft beam 

  • 36ft draft 

  • 9,217 long tons 

  • 30+ knots 

  • 33 officers, 280 enlisted 

  • 4 GE LM2500 gas turbine engines produce 104,000 hp 

  • 3 Rolls Royce K34 ship service gas turbine generators 

  • 2 MH-60R Lamps MKIII Helicopters 

  • 2 Willard Marine 7m Rigid Hull Inflatable Boats (RHIB) 

  • 96 MK41 Vertical Launching System (VLS) Cells for SM 2/3/6, ESSM, TLAM, and VLA 

  • 1MK34 Gun Weapon System 5”/62 Caliber Gun 

  • 1Mk15 Mod 1B 20mm CIWS 

  • 2MK32 Triple Tube Mount SVTT 

  • 2MK38 25mm machine gun system 

  • AN/SPY-1D(V) Radar 

  • AN/SQQ-89(V) Sonar Suite 

  • AN/SLQ-32B(V)2 Electronic Warfare Suite 

 
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