Arleigh Burke-class destroyer facts for kids

USS Arleigh Burke in the Chesapeake Bay in 2013
Quick facts for kids Class overview
Name:	Arleigh Burke class
Builders:	Ingalls Shipbuilding Bath Iron Works
Operators:	United States Navy
Preceded by:	Kidd class Charles F. Adams class
Succeeded by:	Zumwalt class
Cost:	US$1.843 billion per ship (DDG 114–116, FY2011/12)
Built:	1988–present
In commission:	1991–present
Planned:	89 as of April 2020
On order:	3
Building:	6
Completed:	68
Active:	68
Retired:	0
Preserved:	0
General characteristics
Type	Guided missile destroyer
Displacement	Fully loaded: Flight I: 8,184 long tons (8,315 t) Flight II: 8,300 long tons (8,400 t) Flight IIA: 9,300 long tons (9,500 t) Flight III: 9,500 long tons (9,700 t)
Length	Flights I and II: 505 ft (154 m) Flight IIA: 509 ft (155 m)
Beam	66 ft (20 m)
Draft	30.5 ft (9.3 m)
Installed power	3 × Allison AG9140 Generators (2,500 kW (3,400 hp) each, 440 V)
Propulsion	4 × General Electric LM2500 gas turbines each generating 26,250 bhp (19,570 kW); coupled to two shafts, each driving a five-bladed reversible controllable-pitch propeller; Total output: 105,000 bhp (78,000 kW)
Speed	In excess of 30 kn (56 km/h; 35 mph)
Range	4,400 nmi (8,100 km) at 20 kn (37 km/h; 23 mph)
Boats & landing craft carried	2 × rigid hull inflatable boats
Complement	Flight I: 303 total Flight IIA: 23 officers, 300 enlisted
Sensors and processing systems	AN/SPY-1D 3D radar (Flight I,II,IIa) AN/SPY-6 AESA 3D radar (Flight III) AN/SPS-67(V)2 surface-search radar AN/SPS-73(V)12 surface-search radar AN/SPG-62 fire-control radar AN/SQS-53C sonar array AN/SQR-19 tactical towed array sonar AN/SQQ-28 LAMPS III shipboard system
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	Guns: DDG-51 to 80: 1 × 5-inch (127 mm)/54 Mk. 45 Mod 1/2 (lightweight gun) DDG-81 onwards: 1 × 5-inch (127 mm)/62 Mk. 45 Mod 4 (lightweight gun) DDG-51 to 84: 2 × 20 mm Phalanx CIWS DDG-85 onwards: 1 × 20 mm Phalanx CIWS 2 × 25 mm M242 Bushmaster chain gun Missiles: 2 × Mk 141 Harpoon Anti-Ship Missile Launcher (Flight I & II only) Flights I & II: 90-cell Mk 41 Vertical Launching System (VLS) Flight IIA: 96-cell Mk. 41 Vertical Launching System (VLS) BGM-109 Tomahawk Land Attack Missile RIM-66M Surface-to-Air Missile with an ASuW mode RIM-161 Anti-Ballistic Missile RIM-162 ESSM quadpacked configuration (DDG-79 onward) RUM-139 Vertical Launch ASROC RIM-174A Standard ERAM Torpedoes: 2 × Mark 32 triple torpedo tubes: Mark 46 torpedo Mark 50 torpedo Mark 54 Lightweight Torpedo
Aircraft carried	Flights I and II: None Flight IIA onwards: up to two MH-60R Seahawk LAMPS III helicopters
Aviation facilities	Flights I and II: Flight deck only, but LAMPS III electronics installed on landing deck for coordinated DDG-51/helo ASW operations Flight IIA onwards: Flight deck and enclosed hangars for two MH-60R LAMPS III helicopters

The Arleigh Burke class of guided missile destroyers (DDGs) is a United States Navy class of destroyer built around the Aegis Combat System and the SPY-1D multifunction passive electronically scanned array radar. The class is named for Admiral Arleigh Burke, an American destroyer officer in World War II, and later Chief of Naval Operations. The lead ship, USS Arleigh Burke, was commissioned during Admiral Burke's lifetime.

These warships were designed as multimission destroyers, able to fulfill the strategic land strike role with Tomahawk missiles; antiaircraft warfare (AAW) role with powerful Aegis radar and surface-to-air missiles; antisubmarine warfare (ASW) with towed sonar array, anti-submarine rockets, and ASW helicopter; and antisurface warfare (ASuW) with Harpoon missile launcher. With upgrades to their AN/SPY-1 phased radar systems and their associated missile payloads as part of the Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense System, the ships of this class have also begun to demonstrate some promise as mobile antiballistic missile and anti-satellite weaponry platforms, operating on 15 ships as of March 2009. Some versions of the class no longer have the towed sonar, or Harpoon missile launcher. Their hull and superstructure were designed to have a reduced radar cross-section.

The first ship of the class was commissioned on 4 July 1991. With the decommissioning of the last Spruance-class destroyer, USS Cushing, on 21 September 2005, the Arleigh Burke-class ships became the U.S. Navy's only active destroyers, until the Zumwalt class became active in 2016. The Arleigh Burke class has the longest production run for any post-World War II U.S. Navy surface combatant. Besides the 62 vessels of this class (comprising 21 of Flight I, 7 of Flight II and 34 of Flight IIA) in service by 2016, up to a further 42 (of Flight III) have been envisioned.

With an overall length of 505 to 509.5 feet (153.9 to 155.3 m), displacement ranging from 8,230 to 9,700 tons, and weaponry including over 90 missiles, the Arleigh Burke class are larger and more heavily armed than most previous ships classified as guided missile cruisers.

Images for kids

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  USS Cole and two other Arleigh Burke-class vessels docked at Naval Station Norfolk in July 2009

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  Flight I ship USS Fitzgerald with TACTAS (tactical towed array sonar) in the center of the fantail, no helicopter hangars, Harpoon missile launchers, and distinctive stacks

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  Flight IIA ship USS Mustin without TACTAS in the center of the fantail and no Harpoon launchers but with aft helicopter hangars and different exhaust stacks

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  Starboard side of USS Momsen, with torpedo tubes mounted on missile deck, rather than earlier amidships mounting, and superstructure changes to accommodate a Remote Minehunting System (RMS) holding bay

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  USS Forrest Sherman in 2007, test firing her new 5"/62 caliber Mark 45 Mod 4 gun, located forward of her 32-cell missile pack module

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  Profile of Flight IIA Arleigh Burke-class destroyer

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  Combat information center aboard the USS John S. McCain (DDG-56)

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  USS Cole being towed from the port city of Aden after the bombing. Blast damage to the hull is visible mid-ship.

See also

In Spanish: Clase Arleigh Burke para niños