Flight iii arleigh burke guided missile destroyer Continue Class-guided missile destroyers USS Arleigh Burke in chesapeake Bay in 2013 ClassIm review: Arleigh Burke classBuilders: Ingalls Shipbuilding Bath Iron Works Operators: U.S. NavyPrepared: Class Kidd Charles F. Adams Successfully: U.S. $1,843 billion per ship (DDG 114-116, FY2011/12) Built: 1988-Present Commission: 1991-presentPlan: 82 to July 2018 Order: 3 Construction: 7Swere: 68Active: 68Lost: 0Report: 0 Served: 0 General Characteristics Type: Guided Missile DestroyerHme: Fully loaded: Flight I: 8.18 4 long tons (8315 tons) Flight II: 8300 long tons (8400 tons) IIA Flight: 9,300 long tons (9500 t) Flight III: 9,500 long tons (9,700 tons) Length: Flights I and II: 505 feet (154 m) Flight IIA : 509 feet (155 m) Beam: 66 feet (20 m) Project : 30.5 feet (9.3 m) Installed capacity: 3 × Allison AG9140 Generators (2500 kW (3,400 hp) each, 440 V)Movement: 4 × General Electric LM2500 gas turbines each generating 26,250 hp (19,570 k)W; Combined with two shafts, each of which controls a five-bladed reverse-driven propeller; Total production: 105,000 hp (78,000 kW) Speed: over 30 kn (56 km/h; 35 mph) Range: 4,400 nm (8,100 km) per 20 kn (37 km/h; 23 mph) Boats and amphibious assault ships carried out: 2 × hard hull inflatable boatsCompleut: Flight I: 303 Total IIA flight: 23 officers, 300 recruited 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 radar AN/SPS-73 (V)212 surface radar AN/SPG-62 fire-control radar AN/S-S-S-53C sonar AN/S'R-19 Tactical Towed Sonar AN/SH-28 LAMPS III Ship Combat Bait System: AN/SL-32 (V)2 Electronic Warfare System AN/SLS-25 Nixie Torpedo Countermeasments MK 36 MOD 12 Decoy Launch System AN/SL-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)[7] 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[8] 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 Light Torpedo carried: Flights I and II: No IIA flight forward: up to two MH-60R Seahawk LAMPS III Helicopters Aviation: Flights I and II: Flight Deck Only, but LAMPS III set to land for coordinated operations of DDG-51/helo ASW Flight IIA and beyond: Flight deck and closed hangars for two MH-60R LAMPS III Class of guided missile destroyers Arleigh Burke (DDGs) is a U.S. Navy- class destroyer built around the Aegis combat system and a multifunctional radar with spy-1D electronic scanning radar. The class is named after Admiral Arleigh Burke, an American destroyer officer in World War II and then chief of naval operations. The leading ship, the USS Arleigh Burke, was commissioned during the lifetime of Admiral Burke. These warships were designed as multi-purpose destroyers capable of fulfilling the strategic role of a tomahawk land attack; the role of anti-aircraft warfare (AAW) with powerful Aegis radars and surface-to-air missiles; anti-submarine warfare (ASW) with towed sonar, anti-submarine missiles and ASW helicopter; and counter-missile warfare (ASuW) with the Harpoon missile launcher. With the modernization of their AN/SPY-1 radar systems and related missile payloads within the Aegis missile defence system, this class of ships have also begun to demonstrate some promise as mobile anti-ballistic missile and anti-satellite weapons platforms operating on 15 ships as of March 2009. Some versions of the class no longer have towed sonar or a Harpoon rocket launcher. Their body and add-on were designed to have a reduced radar section. The first class ship was commissioned on July 4, 1991. Following the decommissioning of the last Spruans-class destroyer, the USS Cushing, on September 21, 2005, the Arleigh Burke-class ships became the only active destroyers of the U.S. Navy until the zumwalt class was activated in 2016. The Arleigh Burke class has the longest production mileage for any U.S. Navy since World War II. In addition to the 62 vessels of this class (including 21 Flights I, 7 Flight II and 34 IIA flights) to be operated by 2016, 42 more (Flight III) were provided. With a total length of 505 to 509.5 feet (153.9 to 155.3 m), a displacement of 8,230 to 9,700 tons and weapons including more than 90 missiles, the Arleigh Burke class is larger and more well-armed than most previous ships classified as guided missile cruisers. The USS Cole and two other Arleigh Burke-class ships moored at Norfolk Naval Station in July 2009 are among the largest destroyers built in the United States. Only spruance, Kidd (563 feet or 172 m) and zumwalt classes (600 feet or 180 m) are larger. The large Ticonderoga-class ships were built on the forms of the Spraans-class hull, but are designated as cruisers because of their fundamentally different missions and weapons systems than the Sprauans and Kidd-class destroyers. Class Burke was designed with a new, large, water plane The form is characterized by a wide burning bow, which greatly improves the ability to conserve the sea. The shape of the hull is designed to provide high speed in high seas states. Flight I ship USS Fitzgerald with TACTAS (tactical towed sonar array) in the center of the fantale, no helicopter hangars, Harpoon rocket launchers, and distinctive stacks of Arleigh Burke Designers included lessons learned from Ticonderoga class guided missile cruisers that were deemed too expensive to continue construction and too difficult to upgrade. With Arleigh Burke's class, the U.S. Navy also returned to steel construction. The previous generation combined a steel case with a lighter aluminum add-on to reduce the upper weight, but the lighter metal was vulnerable to cracking. Aluminium is also less fire resistant than steel; A 1975 fire aboard the USS Belknap gutted its aluminium add-on. Combat damage to Royal Navy ships, compounded by their aluminium superstructure during the Falklands War of 1982, supported the decision to use steel. Another lesson from the Falklands War was that the Navy protected the ship's vital space with two-seater steel armor (creating a buffer against modern missiles) and Kevlar liners. The IIA flight ship USS Mustin without TACTAS in the center of the fantail and no Harpoon launchers but with aft helicopter hangars and different exhaust stacks Arleigh Burke Design includes stealth techniques, such as angular rather than traditional vertical surfaces and mainmast tripod, the collective protection system makes the Arleigh Burke class the first American warships, designed with a nuclear filtration system. NBC's other defense systems include a countermeasure wash system. The star side of the USS Momsen, with torpedoes mounted on the missile deck rather than earlier against the background of mounting on board, and the add-on changes to accommodate the remote mine-hunting system (RMS) holding compartment of their Aegis Combat System differs from the traditional rotating radar, which mechanically rotates 360 degrees for each airspace sweep. Instead, Aegis uses a passive electronically scanned array that allows you to continuously track targets while scanning the area. Computer control of the system also allows you to centralize previously separate tracking and targeting functions. The system is also resistant to electronic countermeasures. Their harpoon autonomous anti-tank missile launchers give them anti-missile capability with a range of more than 64 nautical miles (119 km; 74 miles). USS Forrest Sherman in 2007, test firing her new 5/62 caliber Mark 45 Mod 4 guns, perched forward 32-cell module rocket pack With the development of Tomahawk Block V, all The Block IV Tomahawks are carried converted into a version of Block V and become a dual role of missiles with anti-vehicle capabilities along with their role of ground attack. The Tomahawk Block Va version is called the Sea Strike version, and the Block Vb version featues the Joint Multi-Ai spectacular warhead system. This provides the Burke destroyers with an additional anti-ship missile along with harpoon, which is not carried out on Flight IIA ships. The tomahawk can be carried in much larger quantities than a harpoon, and has a much larger warhead. The 127mm 5-inch/54-inch mark 45 pistol, combined with the Mark 34 Gun Weapon System, is an antidote weapon that can also be used for eye-catching air contact or to support forces on the shore with naval firing support (NGFS), with a range of up to 20 miles (32 km) and capable of firing 20 rounds per minute. This quote needs to be quoted RIM-7 Sea Sparrow/162 ESSM missiles provide tome against missiles and aircraft, while standard SM-2 and SM-6 missiles provide an anti-aircraft defense zone; The SM-6 provides over-the-horizon missile defense.