Arleigh Burke class destroyer

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USS Arleigh Burke (DDG-51)
Class overview
Name:	Arleigh Burke class destroyer
Operators:	United States Navy
Preceded by:	Kidd-class guided missile destroyer
Succeeded by:	Zumwalt-class guided missile destroyer
Active:	55
General characteristics
Class and type:	Destroyer
Displacement:	8,315 tons full load (Flight I) 8,400 tons full load (Flight II) 9,200 tons full load (Flight IIA)
Length:	505 feet (154 m) (Flights I and II) 509 feet (155 m) (Flight IIA)
Beam:	59 feet (18 m)
Draught:	31 ft (9.4 m)
Draft:	30.5 feet (9.3 m)
Propulsion:	4 General Electric LM2500-30 gas turbines; two shafts, 108,000 total shaft horsepower (4 x 27,000 horsepower) (7.5 MW)
Speed:	30+ knots (56+ km/h)
Range:	4,400 nautical miles (8,100 km) at 20 knots (37 km/h)
Boats and landing craft carried:	2 Rigid hull inflatable boats
Complement:	23 officers, 250 enlisted
Armament:	• 90 cells Mk 41 vertical launch systems • BGM-109 Tomahawk • RGM-84 Harpoon SSM (not in Flight IIa units) • SM-2 Standard SAM (has an ASuW mode) • SM-3 Standard Ballistic missile defense missile for AEGIS BMD (DDG 61, DDG 55 and expanding) • RIM-162 ESSM SAM (DDG-79 onward) • RUM-139 Vertical Launch ASROC • one 5 inch (127 mm/54) Mk-45 (lightweight gun) (DDG-51 through -80) • one 5 inch (127 mm/62) Mk-45 mod 4 (lightweight gun) (DDG-81 on) • two 20 mm Phalanx CIWS (DDG-51 through -83, several later units) • two Mark 32 triple torpedo tubes (six Mk-46 or Mk-50 torpedoes, Mk-54 in the near future)
Aircraft carried:	• None, but LAMPS III electronics installed on landing deck for coordinated DDG-51/helo ASW operations (Flights I and II) • two SH-60 Seahawk LAMPS III helos (Flight IIA)

The Arleigh Burke class of guided missile destroyers is the first destroyer of the United States Navy built around the Aegis combat system and the SPY-1D multi-function phased array radar. The first ship was commissioned on 4 July 1991. After the decommissioning of the last Spruance-class destroyer, USS Cushing, on September 21, 2005, the Arleigh Burke class ships became the U.S. Navy's only active destroyers.

The class is named for Admiral Arleigh "31-Knot" Burke, the most famous American destroyer officer of World War II. Admiral Burke was alive when the class leader was commissioned.

Contents 1 Characteristics 2 Development 3 Modernization 4 Operational History 5 Contractors 6 Ships 7 Gallery 8 See also 9 References 10 Further reading 11 External links

[edit] Characteristics

The Arleigh Burke class are among the largest and most powerful destroyers ever built in the United States, both larger and more heavily armed than many previous cruisers. (The larger Ticonderoga class were constructed on Spruance class hullforms, but are designated as cruisers.)

The Arleigh Burke's designers incorporated many lessons learned by the Royal Navy during the Falklands campaign and from the USN Ticonderoga class cruisers. The Ticonderoga class guided-missile cruisers were supposedly becoming too expensive to continue building, and too difficult to upgrade.^{[citation needed]} Visually, the angled rather than traditional vertical surfaces of the Arleigh Burke design are part of "stealth" technologies, which improve the ship's ability to evade and/or destroy anti-ship cruise missiles.

The Arleigh Burke class returns to the traditional all-steel construction. Combining a steel hull with an aluminum superstructure had been an innovation to reduce topweight, but proved vulnerable to combat damage. A 1975 fire aboard USS Belknap that gutted her aluminum superstructure and observation of battle damage to British ships during the Falklands War prompted the decision to employ a steel superstructure.

Her Collective Protection System makes the Arleigh Burke class the first U.S. warships designed with an air-filtration system against nuclear, biological and chemical warfare.^[1]

[edit] Development

In 1980 the United States Navy initiated design studies with seven contractors. By 1983 the number of competitors had been reduced to three; Bath Iron Works, Todd Shipyards and Ingalls Shipbuilding.^[1] On 3 April 1985 Bath Iron Works received a US$321.9 million contract to build the first of class, USS Arleigh Burke.^[2] Gibbs & Cox was awarded the contract to be the lead ship design agent.^[3] The total cost of the first ship was put at US$1.1 billion, the other US$778 million being for the ship's weapons systems.^[2] She was laid down by the Bath Iron Works company at Bath, Maine, on 6 December 1988, and launched on 16 September 1989 by Mrs. Arleigh Burke. The Admiral himself was present at her commissioning ceremony on 4 July 1991, held on the waterfront in downtown Norfolk, Virginia.

The "Flight IIA Arleigh Burke" ships have several new features, which has led some to suggest that they be renamed the "Oscar Austin" class after the first ship, Oscar Austin (DDG-79). Among the changes are the addition of two hangars for ASW helicopters, and a new, longer Mark 45 Mod 4 5-inch/62-caliber naval gun (fitted on Winston S. Churchill (DDG-81) and later ships). Later Flight IIA ships starting with USS Mustin have a modified funnel design that buries the funnels within the superstructure as a signature-reduction measure. TACTAS Towed array sonar was omitted from flight IIA ships and they also lack Harpoon launchers. Ships from DDG-68 to DDG-84 have AN/SLQ-32 antennas that resemble V3 configuration similar to those deployed on Aegis cruisers, while the remainder have V2 variants externally resembling ones deployed on some Oliver Hazard Perry frigates. V3 has an active electronic countermeasures component while V2 is passive only. A number of Flight IIA ships were constructed without a Phalanx CIWS because of the planned Evolved Sea Sparrow Missile, but later the Navy decided to retrofit all IIA ships to carry at least one Phalanx CIWS by 2013.^[4]

USS Pinckney, USS Momsen, USS Chung-Hoon, USS Nitze, USS James E. Williams and USS Bainbridge^[5] have superstructure differences to accommodate the Remote Mine-hunting System (RMS). Mk 32 torpedo tubes were moved to the missile deck from amidships as well.

The United States Navy has begun a modernization program for the Arleigh Burke class aimed at improving the gun systems on the ships in an effort to address congressional concerns over the retirement of the U.S. Iowa-class battleships. Among other things this modernization includes is the extension of the range of the 5-inch (127 mm) guns on the Flight I Arleigh Burke-class destroyers (USS Arleigh Burke to USS Ross) with extended range guided munitions (ERGMs) that would enable the ships to fire projectiles about 40 nautical miles (74 km) inland.^[6][7][8] However the ERGM has been cancelled.^[9]

[edit] Modernization

The U.S. Navy recently launched a modernization program that is designed to provide a comprehensive mid-life upgrade to ensure that the class remains effective. Reduced manning, increased mission effectiveness, and a reduced total cost of ownership are the goals of the modernization program. Modernization technologies will be integrated during new construction of DDG 111 and 112, then retrofitted into DDG Flight I and II ships during in service overhaul periods.^[10] The first phase will update the hull, mechanical and electrical systems while the second phase will introduce an open architecture computing environment. The result will be improved capability in both BMD and littoral combat.^[11]

They are scheduled to be replaced by the DDG(X) class beginning in 2020.^[12]

[edit] Operational History

One Arleigh Burke class ship, the USS Cole, was damaged by an attack in which an improvised explosive device was delivered by suicide bombers on a boat in October 2000 in Aden, Yemen (see USS Cole bombing). The ship was repaired and returned to duty in 2001.

[edit] Contractors

• Builders: 33 units constructed by General Dynamics, Bath Iron Works Division and 29 by Northrop Grumman Ship Systems, Ingalls Shipbuilding
• AN/SPY-1 Radar and Combat System Integrator: Lockheed Martin

[edit] Ships

Name	Number	Builder	Launched	Commissioned	Home port	Status
Flight I
Arleigh Burke	DDG-51	Bath Iron Works	16 September 1989	4 July 1991	Norfolk, Virginia	Active
Barry	DDG-52	Ingalls Shipbuilding	8 June 1991	12 December 1992	Norfolk, Virginia	Active
John Paul Jones	DDG-53	Bath Iron Works	26 October 1991	18 December 1993	San Diego, California	Active
Curtis Wilbur	DDG-54	Bath Iron Works	16 May 1992	19 March 1994	Yokosuka, Japan	Active
Stout	DDG-55	Ingalls Shipbuilding	16 October 1992	13 August 1994	Norfolk, Virginia	Active
John S. McCain	DDG-56	Bath Iron Works	26 September 1992	2 July 1994	Yokosuka, Japan	Active
Mitscher	DDG-57	Ingalls Shipbuilding	7 May 1993	10 December 1994	Norfolk, Virginia	Active
Laboon	DDG-58	Bath Iron Works	20 February 1993	18 March 1995	Norfolk, Virginia	Active
Russell	DDG-59	Ingalls Shipbuilding	20 October 1993	20 May 1995	Pearl Harbor, Hawaii	Active
Paul Hamilton	DDG-60	Bath Iron Works	24 July 1993	27 May 1995	Pearl Harbor, Hawaii	Active
Ramage	DDG-61	Ingalls Shipbuilding	11 February 1994	22 July 1995	Norfolk, Virginia	Active
Fitzgerald	DDG-62	Bath Iron Works	29 January 1994	14 October 1995	Yokosuka, Japan	Active
Stethem	DDG-63	Ingalls Shipbuilding	17 July 1994	21 October 1995	Yokosuka, Japan	Active
Carney	DDG-64	Bath Iron Works	23 July 1994	13 April 1996	Mayport, Florida	Active
Benfold	DDG-65	Ingalls Shipbuilding	9 November 1994	30 March 1996	San Diego, California	Active
Gonzalez	DDG-66	Bath Iron Works	18 February 1995	12 October 1996	Norfolk, Virginia	Active
Cole	DDG-67	Ingalls Shipbuilding	10 February 1995	8 June 1996	Norfolk, Virginia	Active
The Sullivans	DDG-68	Bath Iron Works	12 August 1995	19 April 1997	Mayport, Florida	Active
Milius	DDG-69	Ingalls Shipbuilding	1 August 1995	23 November 1996	San Diego, California	Active
Hopper	DDG-70	Bath Iron Works	6 January 1996	06 September 1997	Pearl Harbor, Hawaii	Active
Ross	DDG-71	Ingalls Shipbuilding	22 March 1996	28 June 1997	Norfolk, Virginia	Active
Flight II
Mahan	DDG-72	Bath Iron Works	29 June 1996	2 February 1998	Norfolk, Virginia	Active
Decatur	DDG-73	Bath Iron Works	10 November 1996	29 August 1998	San Diego, California	Active
McFaul	DDG-74	Ingalls Shipbuilding	18 January 1997	25 April 1998	Norfolk, Virginia	Active
Donald Cook	DDG-75	Bath Iron Works	3 May 1997	4 December 1998	Norfolk, Virginia	Active
Higgins	DDG-76	Bath Iron Works	4 October 1997	24 April 1999	San Diego, California	Active
O'Kane	DDG-77	Bath Iron Works	28 March 1998	23 October 1999	Pearl Harbor, Hawaii	Active
Porter	DDG-78	Ingalls Shipbuilding	12 November 1997	20 March 1999	Norfolk, Virginia	Active
Flight IIA ships: 5"/54 variant
Oscar Austin	DDG-79	Bath Iron Works	7 November 1998	19 August 2000	Norfolk, Virginia	Active
Roosevelt	DDG-80	Ingalls Shipbuilding	10 January 1999	14 October 2000	Mayport, Florida	Active
Flight IIA ships: 5"/62 variant
Winston S. Churchill	DDG-81	Bath Iron Works	17 April 1999	10 March 2001	Norfolk, Virginia	Active
Lassen	DDG-82	Ingalls Shipbuilding	16 October 1999	21 April 2001	Yokosuka, Japan	Active
Howard	DDG-83	Bath Iron Works	20 November 1999	20 October 2001	San Diego, California	Active
Bulkeley	DDG-84	Ingalls Shipbuilding	21 June 2000	8 December 2001	Norfolk, Virginia	Active
Flight IIA ships: with 5"/62 no 20 mm CIWS variant[13]
McCampbell	DDG-85	Bath Iron Works	2 July 2000	17 August 2002	Yokosuka, Japan	Active
Shoup	DDG-86	Ingalls Shipbuilding	22 November 2000	22 June 2002	Everett, Washington	Active
Mason	DDG-87	Bath Iron Works	23 June 2001	12 April 2003	Norfolk, Virginia	Active
Preble	DDG-88	Ingalls Shipbuilding	1 June 2001	9 November 2002	San Diego, California	Active
Mustin	DDG-89	Ingalls Shipbuilding	12 December 2001	26 July 2003	Yokosuka, Japan	Active
Chafee	DDG-90	Bath Iron Works	2 November 2002	18 October 2003	Pearl Harbor, Hawaii	Active
Pinckney	DDG-91	Ingalls Shipbuilding	26 June 2002	29 May 2004	San Diego, California	Active
Momsen	DDG-92	Bath Iron Works	19 July 2003	18 September 2004	Everett, Washington	Active
Chung-Hoon	DDG-93	Ingalls Shipbuilding	15 December 2002	18 September 2004	Pearl Harbor, Hawaii	Active
Nitze	DDG-94	Bath Iron Works	3 April 2004	5 March 2005	Norfolk, Virginia	Active
James E. Williams	DDG-95	Ingalls Shipbuilding	25 June 2003	11 December 2004	Norfolk, Virginia	Active
Bainbridge	DDG-96	Bath Iron Works	13 November 2004	12 November 2005	Norfolk, Virginia	Active
Halsey	DDG-97	Ingalls Shipbuilding	9 January 2004	30 July 2005	San Diego, California	Active
Forrest Sherman	DDG-98	Ingalls Shipbuilding	2 October 2004	28 January 2006	Norfolk, Virginia	Active
Farragut	DDG-99	Bath Iron Works	23 July 2005	10 June 2006	Mayport, Florida	Active
Kidd	DDG-100	Ingalls Shipbuilding	22 January 2005	9 June 2007	San Diego, California	Active
Gridley	DDG-101	Bath Iron Works	28 December 2005	10 February 2007	San Diego, California	Active
Sampson	DDG-102	Bath Iron Works	16 September 2006	3 November 2007	San Diego, California	Active
Truxtun	DDG-103	Ingalls Shipbuilding	2 June 2007	25 April 2009	Norfolk, Virginia	Active
Sterett	DDG-104	Bath Iron Works	19 May 2007	9 August 2008	San Diego, California	Active
Dewey	DDG-105	Ingalls Shipbuilding	26 January 2008	TBD 2009	San Diego, California	Pre-commissioned
Stockdale	DDG-106	Bath Iron Works	10 May 2008	18 April 2009	San Diego, California	Active
Gravely	DDG-107	Ingalls Shipbuilding	30 March 2009			Under Construction, launched
Wayne E. Meyer	DDG-108	Bath Iron Works	18 October 2008		San Diego, California	Under Construction, launched
Jason Dunham	DDG-109	Bath Iron Works				Under Construction, keel laid
William P. Lawrence	DDG-110	Ingalls Shipbuilding				Under Construction, keel laid
Spruance	DDG-111	Bath Iron Works				Under Construction, keel laid
Michael Murphy	DDG-112	Bath Iron Works				Under Construction, pre-keel laying

The USS Michael Murphy was originally intended to be the last of the Arleigh Burke class, however with reduction of the Zumwalt (DDG-1000) class production, the Navy is considering adding new DDG-51 class ships.^[14] In April 2009, the Navy announced a plan that limited the Zumwalt class to three units while ordering another three Arleigh Burke class ships from both Bath Iron Works and Ingalls Shipbuilding.^[15]

[edit] Gallery

In this image of USS Fitzgerald (DDG-62), a Flight I ship, note TACTAS in center of fantail, lack of helicopter hangars, and design of stacks.

In this image of USS Mustin (DDG-89), a Flight IIA ship, note lack of TACTAS in center of fantail, aft helicopter hangars, Phalanx CIWS mount and different design of exhaust stacks.

Starboard side of USS Momsen (DDG-92), note torpedo tubes mounted on missile deck vs earlier mounted amidships. Also note superstructure changes to accommodate a Remote Minehunting System (RMS) holding bay.

[edit] See also

• Kongō class destroyer
• Atago class destroyer
• King Sejong the Great class destroyer
• Álvaro de Bazán class frigate

[edit] References

[edit] Further reading

• Sanders, Michael S. (1999). The Yard: Building a Destroyer at the Bath Iron Works. New York: HarperCollins. ISBN 0-06-019246-1.  (Describes the construction of Donald Cook (DDG-75) at Bath Iron Works.)

[edit] External links

• Arleigh Burke-class destroyers at Destroyer History Foundation
• Arleigh Burke unit list
• Project information on the Arleigh Burke Class (Aegis)

v • d • e Arleigh Burke-class destroyer Flight I ships Arleigh Burke · Barry · John Paul Jones · Curtis Wilbur · Stout · John S. McCain · Mitscher · Laboon · Russell · Paul Hamilton · Ramage · Fitzgerald · Stethem · Carney · Benfold · Gonzalez · Cole · The Sullivans · Milius · Hopper · Ross Flight II ships Mahan · Decatur · McFaul · Donald Cook · Higgins · O'Kane · Porter Flight IIA ships 5/54" variant: Oscar Austin · Roosevelt 5/62" variant: Winston S. Churchill · Lassen · Howard · Bulkeley · McCampbell · Shoup · Mason · Preble · Mustin · Chafee · Pinckney · Momsen · Chung-Hoon · Nitze · James E. Williams · Bainbridge · Halsey · Forrest Sherman · Farragut · Kidd · Gridley · Sampson · Truxtun · Sterett · Dewey · Stockdale · Gravely · Wayne E. Meyer · Jason Dunham · William P. Lawrence · Spruance · Michael Murphy List of destroyers of the United States Navy · List of destroyer classes of the United States Navy

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