USS Porter (DDG-78)
_2007.jpg) USS Porter (DDG-78) |
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| Name: | USS Porter |
| Namesake: | David Dixon Porter |
| Ordered: | 20 July 1994 |
| Builder: | Ingalls Shipbuilding, Pascagoula, Mississippi |
| Laid down: | 2 December 1996 |
| Launched: | 12 November 1997 |
| Acquired: | 11 January 1999 |
| Commissioned: | 20 March 1999 |
| Motto: | Freedom's Champion |
| Status: | in active service, as of 2012[update] |
| Badge: | _Coat_of_Arms.jpg) |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Arleigh Burke class destroyer |
| Displacement: | Light: approx. 6,800 long tons (6,900 t) Full: approx. 8,900 long tons (9,000 t) |
| Length: | 505 ft (154 m) |
| Beam: | 66 ft (20 m) |
| Draft: | 31 ft (9.4 m) |
| Propulsion: | 4 General Electric LM2500-30 gas turbines, two shafts, 100,000 total shaft horsepower (75 MW) |
| Speed: | >30 knots (56 km/h) |
| Range: | 4,400 nautical miles at 20 knots (8,100 km at 37 km/h) |
| Complement: | 33 Officers 38 Chief Petty Officers 210 Enlisted Personnel |
| Sensors and processing systems: |
• AN/SPY-1D 3D Radar • AN/SPS-67(V)2 Surface Search Radar • AN/SPS-73(V)12 Surface Search Radar • AN/SQS-53C Sonar Array • AN/SQR-19 Tactical Towed Array Sonar • AN/SQQ-28 LAMPS III Shipboard System |
| Electronic warfare and decoys: |
• AN/SLQ-32(V)2 Electronic Warfare System • AN/SLQ-25 Nixie Torpedo Countermeasures • MK 36 MOD 12 Decoy Launching System • AN/SLQ-39 CHAFF Buoys |
| Armament: |
1 × 29 cell, 1 × 61 cell Mk 41 vertical launch systems with 90 × RIM-156 SM-2, BGM-109 Tomahawk or RUM-139 VL-Asroc missiles |
| Aircraft carried: | 1 SH-60 Sea Hawk helicopter can be embarked |
| Motto: | Freedom's Champion |
USS Porter (DDG-78) is an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer in the United States Navy. Porter is named after Commodore David Porter, and his son, Admiral David Dixon Porter.
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[edit] Pirates
On 28 October 2007, Porter attacked and sank two pirate skiffs off Somalia after receiving a distress call from the tanker MV Golden Nori which was under attack from pirates.[1]
[edit] Upgrade
On November 12, 2009, the Missile Defense Agency announced that Porter would be upgraded during fiscal year 2013 to RIM-161 Standard Missile 3 (SM-3) capability in order to function as part of the Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense System.[2]
[edit] Operation Nanook 2010
In August 2010 the Porter and the buoy tender USCGC Alder participated in Operation Nanook 2010 in Baffin Bay and the Davis Straits.[3] This was the fourth annual Operation Nanook organized by the Canadian Government, but it was the first to host foreign vessels.
[edit] References
- ^ "U.S. warship sinks two pirate skiffs". CNN. 2007-10-29. http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/africa/10/29/somalia.pirates/index.html. Retrieved 2007-10-31.
- ^ "MDA announces next 6 BMD ships", Navy Times, 12 November 2009.
- ^ "Canada Command - OP Nanook". Canadian Forces. 2010-08. http://www.canadacom.forces.gc.ca/daily/archive-nanook10-eng.asp?#050810. Retrieved 2010-09-22. mirror
This article includes information collected from the Naval Vessel Register, which, as a U.S. government publication, is in the public domain.
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