USS O'Kane (DDG-77)
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USS O’Kane (DDG-77) |
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| Career (US) | |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| 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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