Guided Missile Destroyer USS Howard DDG 83

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USS Howard (DDG 83)

General Characteristics, Arleigh Burke class

Builder: Bath Iron Works, Ingalls Shipbuilding.

SPY-1 Radar and Combat System Integrator: Lockheed Martin 

Date Deployed: July 4, 1991 (USS Arleigh Burke)

Propulsion: Four General Electric LM 2500-30 gas turbines; two shafts, 100,000 total shaft horsepower.

Length: Flights I and II (DDG 51-78): 505 feet (153.92 meters)

Flight IIA (DDG 79-98): 509½ feet (155.29 meters).

Beam: 59 feet (18 meters).

Displacement: Hulls 51 through 71: 8,315 tons (8,448.04 metric tons) full load

Hulls 72 through 78: 8,400 tons (8,534.4 metric tons) full load

Hulls 79 and on: 9,200 tons (9,347.2 metric tons) full load.

Speed: in excess of 30 knots.

Crew: 23 officers, 300 enlisted.

Armament: Standard missile; Harpoon; Vertical Launch ASROC (VLA) missiles; Tomahawk®; six Mk-46 torpedoes (from two triple tube mounts); LAMPS III electronics installed on landing deck for coordinated DDG 51/helo ASW operations (DDG 51-78). Two SH-60 Seahawk LAMPS III helicopters (DDG 79-105)

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Art

(Grandson of a 30 year Navy Master Chief)