USS Porter (DDG 78)
_is_underway_in_the_Atlantic_Ocean.jpg) The Porter 2012 in the Atlantic Ocean |
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| Overview | |
|---|---|
| Order | July 20, 1994 |
| Keel laying | 2nd December 1996 |
| Launch | November 12, 1997 |
| 1. Period of service |
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| Commissioning | March 20, 1999 |
| 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 Porter (DDG-78) is an American destroyer of the Arleigh Burke class . The United States Navy named the ship after Commodore David Porter and his son, Admiral David Dixon Porter .
history
DDG-78 was ordered in 1994 and laid down at Ingalls Shipbuilding in late 1996 . The unit was launched in November of the following year. After the final equipment and the shipyard test drives, the Porter was put into service in March 1999. After a few more test drives, the post-shakedown availability in the Ingalls shipyard followed from August to November of that year .
In November 2000, the Porter moved on her maiden voyage as escort for the new carrier USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75) . In 2003 the destroyer took part in Operation Iraqi Freedom with USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71) . During this time, the Porter was involved in Tomahawk shootdowns on targets in Iraq. In 2005/2006 the ship spent some time in the Mediterranean.
In 2007, a mission followed in the Expeditionary Strike Group around the USS Kearsarge (LHD-3) . During the voyage on October 29, the Porter sank two skiffs off the coast of Somalia , which were used by pirates to board a cargo ship. The destroyer responded to an emergency call from the freighter, which, as it became known later, was loaded with extremely flammable benzene . The hijacked ship, the Panamanian flagged Golden Mori , was then chased into Somali waters by Porter's sister ship the USS Arleigh Burke (DDG-51) , for which the government of the African country granted approval for the first time. In May 2009, the Porter took part in the Joint Warrior exercise in the North Atlantic. With the USS Enterprise (CVN 65) , the destroyer moved in 2012 towards the Mediterranean and Indian Ocean.
In the early morning hours of August 12, 2012, the Porter collided with the Japanese motor tanker Otowasan flying the Panamanian flag in the Strait of Hormuz . According to a broadcast by the 5th US Fleet , no persons involved were injured on either side in the collision. The porter was able to call into the port of Jebel Ali in the United Arab Emirates for appraisal and repair on its own .
As of June 29, 2015, the ship of the 6th US fleet went on patrol. From July 5 to 17, 2015, the USS Porter was in the Black Sea together with the USS Donald Cook (DDG 75) as part of Operation Atlantic Resolve and the Sea Breeze 2015 maneuver . This was followed by Passing Exercise (PASSEX) with the navies of Bulgaria, Romania, Turkey and the Ukraine.
On February 10, 2017, the USS Porter was approached by several Russian fighter planes off the Romanian coast, which had switched off their transponders . First one Il-38 flew over the destroyer at a low altitude, followed by three Su-24s . US military warned that the risky behavior could lead to misunderstandings at any time.
On April 7, 2017, the USS Porter and USS Ross fired 59 tomahawk cruise missiles to attack the Syrian military airfield at Ash-Shayrat .
Web links
- Entry in the Naval Vessel Register (Engl.)
- official website (English).
Individual evidence
- ↑ cnn.com: US destroyer pursuing hijacked ship in Somali waters, military says (engl.)
- ↑ orf.at: Strait of Hormuz: US destroyer collided with oil tanker
- ↑ US Naval Forces Central Command, Public Affairs No injuries in Strait of Hormuz collision: Update ( Memento from August 16, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (Eng.)
- ↑ navy.mil Update: No Injuries in Strait of Hormuz Collision (Engl.)
- ↑ Thomas Gibbons-Neff: "In first under Trump, Russian jets buzzed a US destroyer at close range" Washington Post of February 14, 2017
- ↑ Claire Phipps: Syria: US launches 59 missiles in strike on airbase near Homs - live (en-GB) . In: The Guardian , April 6, 2017.
- ↑ Syria was: US launches missile strikes in response to chemical 'attack' (en-GB) . In: BBC News , April 7, 2017.