USS O'Kane (DDG-77)

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USS O’Kane (DDG-77)
USS O’Kane (DDG-77)
Career (US) United States Navy Ensign
Name: O'Kane
Namesake: Richard O'Kane
Ordered: 20 July 1994
Builder: Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine
Laid down: 8 May 1997
Launched: 28 March 1998
Acquired: May 19, 1999
Commissioned: 23 October 1999
Homeport: Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
Status: Active in service as of 2008
General characteristics
Class and type: Arleigh Burke class destroyer
Displacement: Light: approx. 6,794.38 tons
Full: approx. 8,885.66 tons
Length: 505 ft (154 m)
Beam: 66 ft (20 m)
Draft: 31 ft (9.4 m)
Propulsion: 4 General Electric LM2500-30 gas turbines, two shafts, 100,000 total shaft horsepower (75 MW)
Speed: 30+ knots (56+ km/h)
Range: 4,400 nautical miles at 20 knots
(8,100 km at 37 km/h)
Complement: 23 Officers
24 Chief Petty Officers
291 Enlisted Personnel
Sensors and
processing systems:
AN/SPY-1D Radar
AN/SPS-67(V)2 Surface Search Radar
• AN/SPS-64(V)9 Surface Search Radar
• AN/SQS-53C Sonar Array
• AN/SQR-19 Tactical Towed Array Sonar
• AN/SQQ-28 LAMPS III Shipboard System
Electronic warfare
and decoys:
AN/SLQ-32(V)2 Electronic Warfare System
AN/SLQ-25 Nixie Torpedo Countermeasures
MK 36 MOD 12 Decoy Launching System
• AN/SLQ-39 CHAFF Buoys
Armament:

1 × 29 cell, 1 × 61 cell Mk 41 vertical launch systems with 90 × RIM-66 SM-2, BGM-109 Tomahawk or RUM-139 VL-Asroc missiles
1 × Mark 45 5/54 in (127/54 mm)
2 × 25 mm chain gun
4 × .50 caliber (12.7 mm) guns
2 × 20 mm Phalanx CIWS

2 × Mk 32 triple torpedo tubes
Aircraft carried: 1 SH-60 Sea Hawk helicopter can be embarked
Motto: A Tradition of Honor

USS O'Kane (DDG-77) is an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer in the United States Navy. It is named for Rear Admiral Richard O'Kane.

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This article includes information collected from the Naval Vessel Register, which, as a U.S. government publication, is in the public domain.

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