TAOE-4 Detroit

Country:  United States

Class, [Type]: Sacramento, [AOR].

Builder: Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Bremerton, U.S.A.

Launch date: 21 June 1969.

Commission date: 28 March 1970.

Decommission date: 17 February 2005.

Displacement ( tons ): 19.200 light, 51.400 - 53.600 full load.

Dimensions ( metres ): 241,7 x 32,6 x 12

Main machinery: 4 x Combustion Engineering boilers; 2 x GE turbines ( 100.000 hp ).

Speed ( knots ): 26.

Range ( miles ): 6.000 at 25 knots, 10.000 at 17 knots.

Complement: 601 ( 24 officers ).

Guns: 2 x GE/GD Vulcan Phalanx Mk15 CIWS 20mm, 4 x 12,7mm.

Missiles:  SAM: 1 x Mk29 octuple launcher for Sea Sparrow.

Military lift: 177.000 barrels of fuel, 2150 tons munitions, 500 tons dry stores, 250 tons refrigerated stores.

Radar: Air: Westinghouse SPS58A, D band; Surface: Raytheon SPS10F, G band; Navigation: Marconi LN 66, I band; Fire control: 2 x Raytheon Mk95, I/J bands, for SAM.

Countermeasures: Decoys: Loral Hycor SRBOC Mk36, chaff and infrared flares launcher. ESM/ECM: SLQ32(V)3, combined intercept and jammer.

Helicopter: 2 x CH46D.

Callsign: NDWQ ()

Awards (as of 17/02/2005): 

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