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USS Truxtun (DDG-103)
Us Info | 2013-10-16 10:23
| Name: | USS Truxtun |
| Namesake: | Commodore Thomas Truxtun |
| Awarded: | 13 September 2002 |
| Builder: | NGSS Ingalls |
| Laid down: | 11 April 2005 |
| Launched: | 17 April 2007 |
| Christened: | 2 June 2007 |
| Acquired: | 24 October 2008 |
| Commissioned: | 25 April 2009 (ceremony) |
| Homeport: | Naval Station Norfolk |
| Motto: | "Pursue Attack Vanquish" |
| Status: | in active service, as of 2012[update] |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type: | Arleigh Burke class destroyer |
| Displacement: | 9,200 tons |
| Length: | 510 ft (160 m) |
| Beam: | 66 ft (20 m) |
| Draft: | 31 ft (9.4 m) |
| Propulsion: | 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 at 20 knots (8,100 km at 37 km/h) |
| Complement: | 380 officers and enlisted |
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Sensors and processing systems: |
• AN/SPY-1D Radar • AN/SPS-67(V)2 Surface Search Radar • AN/SPS-64(V)9 Surface Search Radar • AN/SQS-53C Sonar Array • AN/SQQ-28 LAMPS III Shipboard System |
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Electronic warfare & 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 × 32 cell, 1 × 64 cell Mk 41 vertical launch systems, 96 × RIM-66 SM-2, BGM-109 Tomahawk or RUM-139 VL-Asroc, missiles 1 × 5/62 in (127/62 mm), 2 × 25 mm, 4 × 12.7 mm guns 2 × Mk 46 triple torpedo tubes 1 x 20mm Phalanx CIWS |
| Aircraft carried: | 2 × SH-60 Sea Hawk helicopters |
USS Truxtun (DDG-103) is a US Navy Arleigh Burke-class destroyer. Her keel was laid down on 11 April 2005 and she was launched on 17 April 2007.[1] Her commissioning ceremony was held 25 April 2009 in Charleston, South Carolina with Commander Timothy Weber as her first commanding officer. She is named for American Naval hero Thomas Truxtun.
DDG-103 suffered a major electrical fire during construction at NGSS Ingalls, Pascagoula, Mississippi 20 May 2006 engulfing two levels and causing damage believed to be in the millions of dollars.[4] She was christened on 2 June 2007 at NGSS Ingalls in Pascagoula Mississippi[5] and was sponsored by Susan Scott Martin and Carol Leigh Roelker, descendants of Thomas Truxtun.
Of note, 17 February was the 255th anniversary of Thomas Truxtun's birth.
