USS Boxer (LHD-4)
.jpg) The boxers with Australian helicopters on deck |
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| Overview | |
|---|---|
| Order | March 10, 1988 |
| Keel laying | April 8, 1991 |
| Launch | August 13, 1993 |
| 1. Period of service |
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| Commissioning | February 11, 1995 |
| Technical specifications | |
| displacement |
40,650 tons |
| length |
257.2 meters |
| width |
33.5 meters |
| Draft |
8.2 meters |
| crew |
104 officers, 1004 sailors, up to 2070 soldiers |
| drive |
2 propellers, driven by 2 steam turbines; 70,000 wave horsepower |
| speed |
20+ knots |
| Armament |
2 starters RAM , 2 starters Sea Sparrow , various guns |
The USS Boxer (LHD-4) is an amphibious assault ship of the United States Navy and belongs to the Wasp class .
history
LHD-4 was commissioned in 1988 and laid down at Ingalls Shipbuilding in 1991 . When the ship was launched and christened in August 1993, the ship was around 70 percent complete. The expansion of the USS Boxer, which consists of over 21,000 tons of steel, 380 tons of aluminum and 150 miles of electrical cables, continued until it was handed over to the US Navy in November 1994. On February 11, 1995, the ship was officially put into service with the US Navy.
The first relocation of the ship took place as part of an Amphibious Ready Group until the end of 1997 and led the Boxers to the Western Pacific and the Indian Ocean . In 1998 the ship took part in the RIMPAC exercise in the Pacific. In 2001 another relocation to the Western Pacific followed. In 2003 the boxers took part in Operation Enduring Freedom . At the beginning of 2004 she spent three and a half months outside Iraq , in 2005 she took part in the Exercise Talisman Saber with the Royal Australian Navy and in the CARAT exercise with the Malaysian forces.
In May 2007, the Boxer completed another nine-month relocation to the Western Pacific and the Persian Gulf . Another trip to this region followed in early 2009.
In the Indian Ocean, the Boxer was used to combat piracy off the coast of Somalia after the attack on Maersk Alabama . Together with the frigate USS Halyburton (FFG-40) and the destroyer USS Bainbridge (DDG-96) , she was in readiness near the freighter in April. After the captain of Maersk Alabama was freed by special forces, he was brought to the boxers after a short stay on the Bainbridge for a routine medical examination.
A rescue operation planned at the end of April 2009 for the German freighter Hansa Stavanger, which was also hijacked off Somalia, by embarked forces and helicopters of the GSG 9 of the Federal Police was supported by the boxers as a transport ship. However, the liberation was stopped by political will before it was implemented.
In February 2011, the Boxer moved as the flagship of her combat group to the Indian Ocean, where she took part in exercises with friendly navies.
On the night of July 18-19, 2019, the boxers drove into the Strait of Hormuz in the context of the tensions between the United States and Iran over the unilaterally terminated nuclear agreement and, according to US President Donald Trump , an Iranian drone shot down which the boxer came too close and was therefore classified as a threat.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Pentagon confirms downing of Iranian drone. In: FAZ.net. July 19, 2019. Retrieved July 19, 2019 .