USNS Impeccable (T-AGOS-23)

5368 tons of standard

85 meters

29 meters

8 meters

25 civilians, 25 military

2 propellers, diesel-electric driven

12 knots

The USNS Impeccable (T- AGOS -23) (English impeccable, flawless German ) is a surveillance ship of the Military Sealift Command. Originally to be built up to five ships of the Impeccable - class, but it remained at a unit.

History

Planning and construction

The order of the Impeccable class was awarded to the American Ship Building Company. It should be an enlarged version of the Victorious class.

The class should receive five units with the hull numbers from -23 to -27. The first unit was named Impeccable, second Integrity should be called. In 1992, American SB the body of the first unit at Kiel, but declined in November 1993 into bankruptcy under Chapter 11 in 1995 decided the United States Navy to let complete the half-finished hull and awarded the contract to Halter Marine. There was the Impeccable 1998 by Stack, 2001, she was transferred to the fleet. The other four planned ships of the class were deleted.

Inserts

In 2007, the Impeccable in the exercises Valiant Shield.

2009 operated the Impeccable in the South China Sea, approximately 75 miles ( 120 kilometers ) south of China's Hainan Island in international waters. On March 5, it was a Chinese frigate at around 100 meters to the Impeccable zoom, a Harbin Y -12 flew over the ship at low altitude. On March 8, the Impeccable was shaded by several Chinese ships, two trawlers maneuvered dangerously close to the American ship. It tried Chinese crew members, damaging grappling with the towing sonar Impeccable, forcing it to an emergency stop maneuver by forward of the bow they stopped close their machines. Subsequently, the Navy ordered the destroyer USS Chung- Hoon (DDG -93) as escorts for Impeccable, which subsequently left the region.

China justified his action on the grounds that the Impeccable was found within the exclusive economic zone of China.

Technology

The Impeccable is 85 meters long and 29 meters wide, its body is made in SWATH form. Here is the hull above the water surface, two torpedo-shaped floats that provide up-and- drive. The diesel-electric propulsion drives each connected to a propeller per buoyancy.

The main task of the Impeccable is to monitor the sea lanes and the measurement of the ocean floors. But it leads to a passive towed sonar AN/UQQ-2 ( Surveillance Towed Array Sensor System, or SURTASS ), with whom she goes on patrol. The Impeccable is unarmed.