USS Arleigh Burke (DDG-51)

8315 tons

154 m

20 meters

9.5 meters

26 officers, 315 teams

Two propellers, each driven over 4 gas turbines; 100,000 shaft horsepower

31 knots

90 VLS cells, 2 triple torpedo launchers, 1 artillery 127 mm

The USS Arleigh Burke ( DDG- 51) is a destroyer in the United States Navy and the lead ship of the Arleigh Burke class.

History

The Arleigh Burke in 1988 laid at Bath Iron Works in Kiel and ran less than twelve months later from the stack. She was christened by the wife of its namesake, Admiral Arleigh Burke, who was himself present. The ship was taken in 1991 with the U.S. Navy in service. 1991 and 1992, the Burke tests at sea, reviewed the new ship design.

Your first mission trip led the Arleigh Burke in 1993 into the Adriatic Sea, where she served as an air surveillance ship for amphibious assault ships ( Green Crown ) during Operation Provide Promise. During the second insert, 1995 in the Mediterranean as part of Operation Deny Flight, she served as a Red Crown, so air monitoring items for aircraft carriers. The application runs in 1998 and 2001 in the Mediterranean and the Persian Gulf were determined by exercises as well as the imposition of the embargo against Iraq through the control of cargo shipping.

Your fifth application had the Arleigh Burke in 2003, he led the ship again in the Gulf. The carrier battle group led by the USS Theodore Roosevelt ( CVN -71), the Burke participated in Operation Iraqi Freedom and fired several missiles at targets in Iraq. Followed in 2005 by the Burke participation in the multinational NATO exercise Joint Maritime Course, 2006 then known as Maritime Security Operations in the Mediterranean.

2007 laid the destroyer with three of his sister ships and the USS Gettysburg (CG- 64) and the USS Philadelphia ( SSN -690 ) as escort for the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise ( CVN -65) in the anti -terror war, the armed forces of the United States. On October 29, a traveling under the Panamanian flag freighter was attacked by pirates off the Somali coast. After Burke's sister ship USS Porter had (DDG -78) sunk the two skiffs of the onboard pirates that Burke took over the prosecution of the laden with highly flammable benzene ship Golden Mori and thereby got the approval of the Somali government to pass through their territorial waters. In previous incidents, the pursuit of pirates often had to be aborted when the pirates fled in Somali waters.

2009, Burke was moved to the North Atlantic to take part in the exercise Joint Warrior.