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- Code Number:
- MYND01_065
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Fire Hose, USS Higgins (DDG-76), guided missile destroyer
- Length: 505 feet (154 m) (Flights I and II)
509 feet (155 m) (Flight IIA) Beam: 59 feet (18 m) Draft: 30.5 feet (9.3 m) Propulsion and power: 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 (8,100 km) at 20 knots (37 km/h) 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 ? 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)
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Arleigh Burke Class Destroyer, (Aegis Combat System), warship, ship, vessel, USN, United States Navy, DDG, SPY-1D multi-function phased array radar., Navy, Military, Armament, Killingry, Weaponry, warfare, Naval, Weapon, Maritime, History, Archives, Historic, Armed Force
- Image by:
- Wernher Krutein
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