USS Kansas City (LCS-22)
Appearance
Sister ship USS Independence
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History | |
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United States | |
Name | Kansas City |
Namesake | Kansas City, Missouri |
Awarded | 29 December 2010[1] |
Builder | Austal USA[1] |
Status | Under construction |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Template:Sclass- |
Displacement | 2,307 metric tons light, 3,104 metric tons full, 797 metric tons deadweight |
Length | 127.4 m (418 ft) |
Beam | 31.6 m (104 ft) |
Draft | 14 ft (4.27 m) |
Propulsion | 2× gas turbines, 2× diesel, 4× waterjets, retractable Azimuth thruster, 4× diesel generators |
Speed | 40 knots (74 km/h; 46 mph)+, 47 knots (54 mph; 87 km/h) sprint |
Range | 4,300 nautical miles (8,000 km; 4,900 mi) at 20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph)+ |
Capacity | 210 tonnes |
Complement | 40 core crew (8 officers, 32 enlisted) plus up to 35 mission crew |
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USS Kansas City (LCS-22) will be an Template:Sclass- of the United States Navy. She will be the second ship to be named for Kansas City, the largest city in the U.S. state of Missouri.[2]
Kansas City is currently being built in Mobile, Alabama by Austal USA.[3]
References
- ^ a b "Kansas City (LCS-22)". Naval Vessel Register. Retrieved 25 July 2016.
- ^ "Secretary of the Navy Names Littoral Combat Ship" (Press release). U.S. Department of Defense. 20 July 2015. NR-288-15. Retrieved 11 September 2016.
- ^ "Austal's Litoral Combat Ship 10 Completes Acceptance Trials" (Press release). Austal. 24 November 2016. Retrieved 25 November 2016.
- This article includes information collected from the Naval Vessel Register, which, as a U.S. government publication, is in the public domain. The entry can be found here.