USS Decatur (DDG-73)

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The Decatur in Hong Kong Bay, 2006
The Decatur in Hong Kong Bay, 2006
Overview
Order January 19, 1993
Keel laying January 11, 1996
Launch November 8, 1996
1. Period of service flag
Commissioning August 29, 1998
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,
2 triple torpedo launchers,
1 127 mm gun

The USS Decatur (DDG-73) is a destroyer of Arleigh Burke class . It was named after Commodore Stephen Decatur .

history

The Decatur was commissioned from Bath Iron Works in 1993 and laid down in early 1996. After ten months of construction, the ship was launched and entered service with the United States Navy in August 1998 .

This was followed by the first test drives and the relocation to the west coast; the Decatur was stationed in San Diego . The ship left port on January 7, 2000, loaded weapons into Pearl Harbor, and then took part in an exercise with the South Korean Navy in the Yellow Sea . After visiting the ports of Guam , the Fiji Islands and Australia , among others , the destroyer reached San Diego again in June. After minor repairs and operations in local waters, the next relocation began in November 2001, as part of the combat group around the USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74) as part of Operation Enduring Freedom , later the ship accompanied a group around the USS Peleliu ( LHA-5) , in which the USS Greeneville (SSN-772) also sailed.

On the third voyage, which began in August 2003 and led the Decatur into the Persian Gulf, it brought up a dhow with a load of two tons of drugs that are said to have belonged to Al Qaeda . In 2006 the destroyer participated in exercise Valiant Shield as part of the combat group surrounding the USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76) . On February 21, 2008, the Decatur and her sister ship USS Russell (DDG-59) delivered radar and orbit data for the launch of the USA 193 satellite by the cruiser USS Lake Erie (CG-70) . In May 2008, the Decatur again moved the Reagan to the Persian Gulf as escort , and then to the western Pacific in 2009. In April 2013 she was marched towards North Korea.

On September 30, 2018, the Decatur and the Lanzhou guided missile destroyer of the Chinese Navy of the People's Liberation Army met with about 41 meters through mutual maneuvers to a very close encounter at the reef Nanxun Jiao (Gaven Reefs), which belongs to the Spratly Islands .

Web links

Commons : USS Decatur  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. From Barbara Starr, Paul Courson: US links al Qaeda to Persian Gulf drug boat. CNN , December 19, 2003, accessed March 1, 2013 . (engl.)
  2. https://edition.cnn.com/2018/10/02/politics/us-china-destroyers-confrontation-south-china-sea-intl/index.html