Eugenio´s Warships - DD-987 O´Bannon

Country: United States

Class, [Type]: Spruance, [DD].

Builder: Ingalls, Pascagoula, Mississipi, U.S.A.

Launch date: 25 September 1978.

Commission date: 15 December 1979.

Decommission date: 19 August 2005.

Displacement ( tons ): 8.040 full load.

Dimensions ( metres ): 171,1 x 16,8 x 8,8 ( sonar )

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

Speed ( knots ): 33.

Range ( miles ): 6.000 at 20 knots.

Complement: 319-339 ( 20 officers ).

Guns: 2 x FMC 127mm Mk45 Mod 0/1, 2 x GE/GD Vulcan Phalanx Mk15 CIWS 20mm, 4 x 12,7mm.

Missiles: AGM: GDC Tomahawk; SSM: 8 x McDonell Douglas Harpoon in two quad launchers; SAM: 24 x Sea Sparrow, from an octuple Raytheon GLMS Mk 29 launcher at stern; 24 x Honeywell ASROC; GDC RAM.

Torpedoes: 6 x 324mm Mk 32 ( two triple tube ); 14 x Honeywell Mk 46.

Radar: Air: Raytheon SPS40B/C/D, E/F bands. Hughes Mk 23 TAS, D band; Surface: ISC Cardion SPS 55, I/J bands; Navigation: Marconi LN 66 or SPS 53, I band. a new Raytheon SPS 64(V)9, I band, seems to be fitted in the near future; Fire Control: Lockheed SPG60, I/J.

Sonar: Gould/Raytheon SQQ89(V)6, combined with an active hull sonar SQS53B/C, and one Gould SQR 19(TACTAS) towed passive sonar.

Countermeasures: Decoys: 4 x Loral Hycor SRBOC Mk 36; Infrared flares and chaff; Chaff buoy SLQ 39; Towed torpedo decoy SLQ25 Nixie; Prairie/Masker hull and blade noise supressor; ESM/ECM: Raytheon SLQ32(V)2.

Helicopter: 1 x SH60B LAMPS III.

Callsign: NTLW ( November Tango Lima Whiskey )