U.S.S. Arthur W. Radford
DD-968
1999
(Argos AS-1999)
- Class: Spruance -- 31 destroyers of 1970-78
- Displacement: 6,156 tons
- Dimensions: 563' (oa) x 55' x 29'
- Machinery: 4 gas turbines (General Electric LM 2500); 86,000 shp; 2 shafts
- Speed: 32.5 knots
- Missiles: 1-8 tube NATO Sea Sparrow launcher Mk 29;
8 Harpoon SSM (2 quad canisters Mk 141);
61-cell VLS for Tomahawk/VLA(ASROC) Mk 41 Mod 0
- Guns: 2-5"/54 DP Mk 45; 2-20mm Phalanx CIWS Mk 16
- ASW weapons: 6-12.75" T.T. Mk 32 (2x3)
- Helicopters: 2 SH-60B Seahawk LAMPS III
- Complement: 325
- Builder: Litton/Ingalls, Pascagoula, Mississippi
- Keel Laid: 14 Jan 1974
- Launched: 1 Mar 1976
- Commissioned: 16 Apr 1977
- Decommissioned: 18 Mar 2003
- Notes: Fitted with an Advanced Enhanced Mast/Sensor (AEM/S) structure in place of her mainmast during a refit at Norfolk Naval shipyard in 1997, as shown here.
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