U.S.S. Winston S. Churchill
DDG-81
2001
(Argos AS-34b)
- Class: Improved Arleigh Burke Flight IIA -- 34 guided missile destroyers of 1994-2001
- Displacement: 9,217 tons
- Dimensions: 509' (oa) x 66'11" x 30'7"
- Machinery: 4 gas turbines (General Electric LM 2500-30); 100,000 shp; 2 shafts
- Speed: 30+ knots
- Missiles: 2 Mk 41 Mod 0 VLS: 32-cells forward, 64-cells aft for Standard-MR/Tomahawk/VLA
- Guns: 1 5"/54 DP Mk 45; 2 20mm Phalanx CIWS Mk 15 (2x1)
- ASW weapons: VL ASROC fired from VLS; 6 12.75" T.T. Mk 32 (2x3)
- Helicopters: 2 SH-60R Seahawk
- Complement: 32+348
- Builder: Bath Iron Works, Maine
- Keel Laid: 7 May 1998
- Launched: 17 Apr 1999
- Commissioned: 10 Mar 2001
- Notes: Flight IIA, an enlarged Arleigh Burke class with helicopter hangar.
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