USS Zumwalt (DDG-1000)
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| Career (USA) | |
|---|---|
| Namesake: | Admiral Elmo Zumwalt |
| Awarded: | 14 February 2008 |
| Builder: | Bath Iron Works |
| Cost: | US$3.3bn |
| Laid down: | 17 November 2011 |
| Commissioned: | 2015 (planned) |
| Homeport: | No homeport - under construction |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type: | Zumwalt-class destroyer |
| Displacement: | 14,564 tons |
| Length: | 600 ft (182.9 m) |
| Beam: | 80.7 ft (24.6 m) |
| Draft: | 27.6 ft (8.4 m) |
| Installed power: | Integrated Power System(IPS) |
| Propulsion: | 2 Rolls-Royce Marine Trent-30 gas turbines and emergency diesel generators, 78 MW |
| Speed: | 30.3 knots (56.1 km/h; 34.9 mph) |
| Complement: | 142 |
| Sensors and processing systems: |
AN/SPY-3 Multi-Function Radar (MFR) (X-band, scanned array) Volume Search Radar (VSR) (S-band, scanned array) |
| Armament: | 20 × MK 57 VLS modules, with 4 vertical launch cells in each module, 80 cells total. Each cell can hold one or more missiles, depending on the size of the missiles. Evolved Sea Sparrow Missile (ESSM) Tactical Tomahawk Vertical Launch Anti-Submarine Rocket (ASROC) 2 × 155 mm Advanced Gun System 920 × 155 mm total; 600 in automated store + Auxiliary store room with up to 320 rounds (non-automatic) as of April 2005 70-100 LRLAP rounds planned as of 2005 of total 2 × Mk 110 57 mm gun (Bofors) |
| Aircraft carried: | 2 SH-60 LAMPS helicopters or 1 MH-60R helicopter 3 MQ-8 Fire Scout VTUAV |
USS Zumwalt (DDG-1000) is to be the lead ship of the Zumwalt class of guided missile destroyers and the first ship to be named for Admiral Elmo Zumwalt.
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