USS Arleigh Burke (DDG-51)
 The Arleigh Burke in rough seas in 1993 |
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| Overview | |
|---|---|
| Order | April 2, 1985 |
| Keel laying | December 6, 1988 |
| Launch | September 16, 1989 |
| 1. Period of service |
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| Commissioning | 4th July 1991 |
| Technical specifications | |
| displacement |
8315 tons |
| length |
154 m |
| width |
20 metres |
| Draft |
9.5 meters |
| crew |
26 officers, 315 men |
| drive |
2 propellers, driven by 4 gas turbines; 100,000 wave horsepower |
| speed |
31 knots |
| Armament |
90 VLS cells |
The USS Arleigh Burke (DDG-51) is a United States Navy destroyer and the Arleigh Burke-class lead ship .
history
The Arleigh Burke was at 1988 Bath Iron Works laid the keel and less than twelve months later ran from the stack . She was baptized by the wife of the namesake, Admiral Arleigh Burke , who was present himself. The ship entered service with the US Navy in 1991. In 1991 and 1992, the Burke conducted tests at sea that verified the new ship design.
Her first mission led the Arleigh Burke in 1993 to the Adriatic Sea , where she served as an air surveillance vessel for amphibious assault ships ( Green Crown ) during Operation Provide Promise . During the second mission, in 1995 in the Mediterranean Sea as part of Operation Deny Flight , it served as the Red Crown , an air surveillance post for aircraft carriers . The operational trips in 1998 and 2001 to the Mediterranean Sea and the Persian Gulf were determined by exercises and the maintenance of the embargo against Iraq through the control of cargo shipping.
The Arleigh Burke had her fifth mission in 2003, when he again led the ship into the Gulf. With the carrier combat group around the USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) , the Burke took part in Operation Iraqi Freedom and fired several cruise missiles at targets in Iraq. In 2005 Burke took part in the multinational NATO exercise Joint Maritime Course , and in 2006 so-called Maritime Security Operations in the Mediterranean.
In 2007, the destroyer laid with three of its sister ships as well as the USS Gettysburg (CG-64) and the USS Philadelphia (SSN-690) as an escort for the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise (CVN-65) as part of the war on terror of the United Forces States . On October 29, a freighter flying the Panama flag was attacked by pirates off the coast of Somalia. After Burke's sister ship USS Porter (DDG-78) sank the two skiffs of the pirates on board, the Burke took over the pursuit of the extremely flammable benzene- laden ship Golden Mori and received permission from the Somali government to sail through its territorial waters. In previous pirate incidents, the pursuit was often broken off when the pirates fled into Somali waters.
In 2014 the Arleigh Burke operated in the Red Sea. On September 22, 2014, she and the cruiser USS Philippine Sea (CG-58) kicked off Operation Inherent Resolve to combat the Islamic State organization in Syria and Iraq with the downing of Tomahawk cruise missiles .
Web links
- Entry in the Naval Vessel Register (Engl.)
- Official Homepage (Engl.)
Individual evidence
- ↑ cnn.com: US destroyer pursuing hijacked ship in Somali waters, military says (engl.)
- ↑ US, Arab allies launch first wave of strikes in Syria FoxNews of September 23, 2014, accessed on November 18, 2014