Spruance-class

The USS Spruance (DD-963), the lead ship of the Spruance-class.

The Spruance-class destroyer was a class of destroyers meant to replace many of the Allen M. Sumner and Gearing-class destroyers. The Spruance-class was built between 1972 and 1983. It was in service in the United States Navy between 1975 and 2005. The Spu-cans were supplanted and replaced by eighty-two Arleigh Burke and three Zumwalt-class guided missile destroyers.

Specifications

• Role: Destroyer (DD)
• Crew Complement: 334
• Displacement: 9,200 tons
• Dimensions
  • Length: 172 meters)
  • Beam: 16.8 meters
  • Draught: 8.8 meters
• Propulsion
  • 4 x General Electric LM2500 Gas Turbines (produces 80,000 shp)
• Speed: 60.19 Kilometers/Hour
• Armament
  • Missiles
    • 1 x 8-cell ASROC Missile Launcher (fires RUR ASROC ASW Missiles)
    • 2 x 4-cell Mark 143 Harpoon MIssile Launcher (fires UGM-84 Harpoon Anti-Ship Missiles)
    • 1 x 8-cell Mark 29 NATO Sea Sparrow Missile Launcher (fires RIM-7 Sea Sparrow Missiles)
    • 1 x 21-cell Mark 49 Rolling Airframe Missile Launcher (fires RIM-116 Rolling Airframe Missiles)
    • 1 x 61-cell Mark 41 (fires RGM-109 Tomahawk Cruise Missiles and RUM-139 VL-ASROC ASW Missiles)
  • Guns
    • 1 x 5"/54-caliber mark 45 naval gun
    • 2 x 20mm Phalanx CIWS (Block 1B)
  • Torpedoes
    • 2 x Mark 32 12.75" triple fire torpedo tubes (fires Mark 46 Torpedoes)
• Sensors
  • AN/SPQ-9 Gunfire Control Radar
  • AN/SQR-19 Towed Array Passive Sonar
  • AN/SPS-40 Air Search Radar
  • AN/SQS-53 Bow Mounted Active Sonar
  • AN/SPS-55 Surface Search Radar
  • AN/SPG-60 Fire Control Radar
• Electronic Warfare and Countermeasures
  • AN/SLQ-25 Nixie Torpedo Countermeasures
  • AN/SLQ-32 Electronic Warfare Suite
  • AN/SLQ-49 Inflatable Decoys
  • Mark 36 SRBOC Decoy Launcing System
• Parasite Craft:
  • 2 x Sikorsky SH-60 Seahawk

Unit Run

Ship Name	Hull No.	Commission– Decommission	Disposition	Link
USS Spruance	DD-963	1975–2005	Disposed of in support of Fleet training exercise	[1]
USS Paul F. Foster	DD-964	1976–2003	Active, in service as EDD-964	[2] [3]
USS Kinkaid	DD-965	1976–2003	Disposed of in support of Fleet training exercise	[4]
USS Hewitt	DD-966	1976–2001	Disposed of by scrapping, dismantling	[5]
USS Elliot	DD-967	1977–2003	Disposed of in support of Fleet training exercise	[6]
USS Arthur W. Radford	DD-968	1977–2003	Disposed of as artificial reef on 10 August 2011 off coast of Delaware	[7]
USS Peterson	DD-969	1977–2002	Disposed of in support of Fleet training exercise	[8]
USS Caron	DD-970	1977–2001	Disposed of in support of Fleet training exercise	[9]
USS David R. Ray	DD-971	1977–2002	Disposed of in support of Fleet training exercise	[10]
USS Oldendorf	DD-972	1978–2003	Disposed of in support of Fleet training exercise	[11]
USS John Young	DD-973	1978–2002	Disposed of in support of Fleet training exercise	[12]
USS Comte de Grasse	DD-974	1978–1998	Disposed of in support of Fleet training exercise	[13]
USS O'Brien	DD-975	1977–2004	Disposed of in support of Fleet training exercise	[14]
USS Merrill	DD-976	1978–1998	Disposed of in support of Fleet training exercise	[15]
USS Briscoe	DD-977	1978–2003	Disposed of in support of Fleet training exercise	[16]
USS Stump	DD-978	1978–2004	Disposed of in support of Fleet training exercise	[17]
USS Conolly	DD-979	1978–1998	Disposed of in support of Fleet training exercise	[18]
USS Moosbrugger	DD-980	1978–2000	Disposed of by scrapping, dismantling	[19]
USS John Hancock	DD-981	1978–2000	Disposed of by scrapping, dismantling	[20]
USS Nicholson	DD-982	1979–2002	Disposed of in support of Fleet training exercise	[21]
USS John Rodgers	DD-983	1979–1998	Disposed of by scrapping, dismantling	[22]
USS Leftwich	DD-984	1979–1998	Disposed of in support of Fleet training exercise	[23]
USS Cushing	DD-985	1979–2005	Disposed of in support of Fleet training exercise	[24]
USS Harry W. Hill	DD-986	1979–1998	Disposed of in support of Fleet training exercise	[25]
USS O'Bannon	DD-987	1979–2005	Disposed of in support of Fleet training exercise	[26]
USS Thorn	DD-988	1980–2004	Disposed of in support of Fleet training exercise	[27]
USS Deyo	DD-989	1980–2003	Disposed of in support of Fleet training exercise	[28]
USS Ingersoll	DD-990	1980–1998	Disposed of in support of Fleet training exercise	[29]
USS Fife	DD-991	1980–2003	Disposed of in support of Fleet training exercise	[30]
USS Fletcher	DD-992	1980–2004	Disposed of in support of Fleet training exercise	[31]
USS Hayler	DD-997	1983–2003	Disposed of in support of Fleet training exercise	[32]