Eugenio´s Warships - CG-61 Monterey

Country: United States

Class, [Type]: Ticonderoga, [CG].

Builder: Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine, U.S.A.

Launch date: 23 October 1988.

Commission date: 16 June 1990.

Decommission date: 16 September 2022.

Displacement ( tons ): 9.466 full load.

Dimensions ( metres ): 172,8 x 16,8 x 9,5

Main machinery: 4 x GE LM 2500 gas turbines ( 86.000 hp ).

Speed ( knots ): 30+.

Range ( miles ): 6.000 at 20 knots.

Complement: 358 ( 24 officers ). Able to support 405.

Guns: 2 x FMC 127mm Mk45 Mod 1, 2 x GE/GD Vulcan Phalanx Mk15 CIWS 20mm, 2 x 25mm Mk38 Bushmaster, 4 x 12,7mm.

Missiles: AGM: GDC Tomahawk; SSM: 8 x McDonell Douglas Harpoon in two cuadruple mountings; SAM: 122 x GDC Standard SM-2MR; ASW: 20 x Honeywell ASROC.

Torpedoes: 6 x 324mm Mk 32 tripled tubed launchers; 36 x Honeywell Mk 46 Mod 5.

Radar: Air: 1 x Raytheon SPY 1B, operating in E/F bands; Air: 1 x Raytheon SPS49(V)8, C/D bandas; Surface: 1 x ISC Cardion SPS 55, I/J bands; Navigation: 1 x Raytheon SPS 64(V)9, I band; Fire Control: Fire Control: 1 x Lockheed Martin SPQ 9A (guns), I/J bands; 2 x General Dynamics Mk90 (Phalanx); 4 x Raytheon SPG-62 target illumination; TACAN: URN 25, IFF Mk XII AIMS UPX-2.

Sonar: Gould/Raytheon SQQ89(V)3 combined with an active hull sonar SQS53B, and one SQR 19 towed passive sonar.

Countermeasures: Decoys: 4 or 6 x Loral Hycor SRBOC Mk 36 launchers; Infrared flares and chaff; Towed torpedo decoye SLQ25 Nixie; ESM/ECM: Raytheon SLQ32V(3).

Helicopter: 2 x SH-60B Sea Hawk LAMPS III.

Callsign: NRAR ( November Romeo Alfa Romeo )