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- Code Number:
- MYND01_074
- Title:
- Captains Chair, USS Higgins (DDG-76), guided missile destroyer
- Length: 154 meters (505 feet) (Flights I and II), 155 meters (509 feet) (Flight IIA)
Beam: 18 meters (59 feet)
Draft: 9.3 meters (30.5 feet)
Propulsion and power: 4 General Electric LM2500-30 gas turbines;
two shafts, 100,000 total shaft horsepower (75 MW)
Speed: 56+ km/h (30+ knots)
Range: 8,100 km (4,400 nautical miles) at 37 km/h (20 knots)
Complement: 23 officers, 300 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)
RIM-162 ESSM SAM (DDG-79 onward)
RUM-139 Vertical Launch ASROC
1x 5 inch (127 mm/54) Mk-45 (lightweight gun) (DDG-51 through -80)
1x 5 inch (127 mm/62) Mk-45 mod 4 (lightweight gun) (DDG-81 on)
2x 20 mm Phalanx CIWS (DDG-51 through -83, several later units)
2x 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)
2x SH-60 Seahawk LAMPS III helos (Flight IIA) - Keywords:
- Image by:
- Wernher Krutein
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