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.

Specifications

• Role: Destroyer (DD)
• Crew Complement: 334
• Displacement: 9,200 tons
• Dimensions
  • Length: 564.3 feet (172 meters)
  • Beam: 55.1 feet (16.8 meters)
  • Draught: 28.9 feet (8.8 meters)
• Propulsion
  • 4 x General Electric LM2500 Gas Turbines (produces 80,000 shp)
• Speed: 32.5 Knots (37.4 Miles/Hour; 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 UGM-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