USS Daniel Inouye (DDG-118)
USINFO | 2013-09-26 16:33
USS Jason Dunham, another Flight IIA Arleigh Burke. |
Career |
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Name: |
USS Daniel Inouye |
Namesake: |
Former US senator Daniel Inouye [1] |
Builder: |
TBA |
Laid down: |
TBA |
Launched: |
TBA |
Commissioned: |
Expected 2018 |
Status: |
Authorized |
General characteristics |
Class & type: |
Arleigh Burke-class destroyer |
Displacement: |
9,200 long tons (9,300 t) |
Length: |
510 ft (160 m) |
Draft: |
33 ft (10 m) |
Propulsion: |
4 × General Electric LM2500-30 gas turbines, 2 shafts, 100,000 shp (75 MW) |
Complement: |
380 officers and enlisted |
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 Daniel Inouye (DDG-118) is a future
Arleigh Burke-class destroyer of the
United States Navy. She is named to honor former
Sen. Daniel Inouye, D-Hawaii. Inouye was awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions in Tuscany, Italy, during World War II and later became a U.S. senator.
Daniel Inouye will be the third of seven planned Flight IIA "technology insertion" ships, which will contain elements of the Flight III ships projected to begin with DDG-123.
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