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USS Stethem (DDG-63), Arleigh Burke-class destroyer
Code Number:
MYNV09P03_08B
Title:
USS Stethem (DDG-63), Arleigh Burke-class destroyer
Namesake: Robert Stethem
Nickname: "The Steel Worker"
Ordered: 22/02/1990
Builder: Ingalls Shipbuilding
Laid down: 11/05/1993
Launched: 17/06/1994
Commissioned: 21/10/1995
Homeport: Yokosuka, Japan
Status: in active service, as of 2019
Displacement: 6,900 tons, Full: 9,000 t
Length: 154 meters (505 feet)
Beam: 20 meters (66 feet)
Draft: 9.4 meters (31 feet)
Propulsion: 4x General Electric LM2500-30 gas turbines, two shafts, 100,000 total shaft horsepower (75 MW)
Speed: over 30 knots (56 km/h)
Range: 8,100 km at 37 km/h, (4,400 nautical miles at 20 knots)
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
1 Mark 127/54 mm (45 5/54 in) cannon
2 25 mm chain gun
4 .50 caliber (12.7 mm) guns
2 20 mm Phalanx CIWS
"2 Mk 32 triple torpedo tubes
aircraft carried: 1x SH-60 Sea Hawk military helicopter can be embarked
Motto: Steadfast And Courageous
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