USS Arkansas (CGN-41)

12,000 standard tons fully loaded

178,60 meters

19.20 meters

9.8 meters

39 officers, 539 sailors

2 propellers, driven by nuclear reactor; 60,000 shaft horsepower

30 nodes

2 Starter -air missiles, two 127 mm guns, two torpedo launchers. Later, an additional 2 starter anti-ship missiles, 2 starters cruise missiles

The USS Arkansas ( CGN- 41) was the fourth unit of the Virginia class and also the last built by the United States Navy nuclear cruisers.

History

The Arkansas was in 1975 at Newport News Shipbuilding commissioned and built 1977-1978. The commissioning took place in 1980.

The first years spent Arkansas in the waters off the U.S. East Coast. The first mission trip in 1982 led the ship into the Mediterranean, where she went before the Lebanon. 1984, now stationed in the Pacific, followed the next big use. About Hawaii and the United States Naval Base Subic Bay, the ship in the Persian Gulf, and from there went through the Red Sea into the Mediterranean through the Strait of Gibraltar by the Atlantic Ocean and the Panama Canal back to the Pacific, so a complete circumnavigation of the globe. Immediately after that, the Arkansas was docked for overhaul, inter alia, two Armored Box Launchers are installed.

In January 1986, the next assignment with the USS Enterprise ( CVN -65) and USS Truxtun (CGN- 35 ) was followed. The group served, inter alia Libya. The Operation Desert Storm spent the cruiser with the aircraft carrier battle group led by the USS Abraham Lincoln ( CVN -72).

In 1998, the ship was decommissioned and broken in the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard in the Ship- Submarine Recycling Program.