GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS, ARLEIGH BURKE CLASS

• Keel Laid: March 23, 1992

• Christened: February 20, 1993

• Commissioned: March 18, 1995

• Builder: Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine

• Propulsion system: four General Electric LM 2500 gas turbine engines

• Propellers: two five bladed propellers

• Length: 505 feet

• Beam: 66 feet

• Draft: 32 feet

• Displacement: approx. 8,300 tons full load

• Speed: 30+ knots

• Aircraft: None. But LAMPS 3 electronics installed on landing deck for coordinated DDG/helicopter ASW operations

• Armament: two Mk 41 VLS for Standard missiles, Tomahawk; Harpoon missile launchers, one Mk
  
  45 5-inch/54 caliber lightweight gun, two Phalanx CIWS, Mk 46 torpedoes (from two triple tube
  
  mounts)

• Homeport: Norfolk, VA

• Crew: 38 Officers, 24 Chief Petty Officers and 241 Enlisted