CG-28 Wainwright

Country:  United States

Class, [Type]: Belknap, [CG].

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

Launch date: 25 April 1964.

Commission date: 08 June 1966.

Decommission date: 15 November 1993.

Displacement ( tons ): 8.100.

Dimensions ( metres ): 167 x 16,8 x 8,7

Main machinery: 4 x Babcock & Wilcox boilers, 2 x General Electric turbines ( 85.000 hp ).

Speed ( knots ): 30+.

Complement: 477 ( 27 officers ).

Guns: 1 x 127mm/54 Mk42, 2 x GE/GD Vulcan Phalanx CIWS 20mm.

Missiles:  SAM: 2 x Mk10 Mod 0 launcher ( Standard ); SSM: 2 x Mk141 launchers ( Harpoon ); ASW: 1 x Mk16 launcher ( ASROC ).

Torpedoes: 2 x Mk32 triple launchers ( Mk46 torpedoes ).

Radar: Air: 1 x SPS-48C 3D, 1 x Raytheon SPS-49(V); Surface: 1 x SPS-10F; Fire Control: 1 x Mk14, 1 x Mk68 and 1 x SPG-53F, 2 x Sperry SPG-55B.

Sonar: SQS-26.

Countermeasures: Decoys: 4 x SRBOC Mk36 launchers. T Mk6 Fanfare, towed torpedo decoy. EW: SLQ-32.

Helicopter: 1 x SH-2F.

Callsign: NGHX ()

Comment: Ex - DLG28. Sunk as target during a missile exercise in the Atlantic Ocean on 12th June 2002.

Awards (as of 15/11/1993): 

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