USS Hué City

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USS Hue City steaming alongside the aircraft carrier John F. Kennedy
USS Hue City steaming alongside the aircraft carrier John F. Kennedy
Career USN Jack
Ordered: 16 April 1987
Laid down: 20 February 1989
Launched: 1 June 1990
Commissioned: 14 September 1991
Decommissioned:
Status: Template:Active in service
Struck:
General Characteristics
Displacement: 9,600 tons
Length: 567 ft
Beam: 55 ft
Draught: 33 ft
Propulsion: 4 × General Electric LM2500 gas turbines, 2 shafts, 80,000 shp
Speed: 30+ knots
Range:
Complement: 387 officers and enlisted
Armament: 2 x 61 cell Mk 41 vertical launch systems, 122 x RIM-67 SM-2, BGM-109 Tomahawk or RUM-139 VL-ASROC, 8 x AGM-84 Harpoon missiles
2 x 5 in, 2 x 25 mm, 2–4 x 12.7 mm guns, 2 x Phalanx CIWS
2 x Mk 46 triple torpedo tubes
Aircraft: 2 x SH-60 Sea Hawk helicopters
Motto: Fidelity, Courage, Honor

USS Hue City (CG-66) is a Ticonderoga class cruiser guided-missile cruiser serving in the United States Navy. She is named for the US Marine and Army battle of Hue, South Vietnam during the Vietnam War.

File:USSHueCityCG-66Crest.jpg
Crest of USS Hue City

Public Domain This article includes information collected from the Naval Vessel Register, which, as a U.S. government publication, is in the public domain.

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