USS Decatur (DDG-73)

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 Decatur ( DDG -73 ) is a destroyer of the Arleigh Burke-class. It was named after Commodore Stephen Decatur.

History

The Decatur was given in 1993 at Bath Iron Works in order and there was given to Kiel in early 1996. After just ten months of construction the ship was launched and was made in August 1998 in the United States Navy in service.

Following came the first test drives and the relocation to the West Coast; Decatur was stationed in San Diego. On 7 January 2000 the ship left the port, loaded weapons in Pearl Harbor and then took part in an exercise with the Navy of South Korea in the Yellow Sea. After visits to the ports, among others, Guam, Fiji and Australia, the destroyer reached again in June San Diego. After minor repairs and operations in local waters began in November 2001, the next installation, as part of the battle group led by the USS John C. Stennis (CVN -74 ) as part of Operation Enduring Freedom, later, the ship escorted a group to the USS Peleliu (LHA -5) in which, among other things, the continued USS Greeneville (SSN -772 ).

On the third trip, which began in August 2003 and the Decatur led into the Persian Gulf, they brought on a Dhow, on the two tons of drugs were found, which should have heard of Al - Qaeda. In 2006, the destroyer, participated as part of the battle group to the USS Ronald Reagan ( CVN- 76) on the Exercise Valiant Shield. On 21 February 2008, the Decatur supplied together with her sister ship USS Russell ( DDG -59 ) radar and orbital data for the launch of the satellite USA 193 by the cruiser USS Lake Erie ( CG -70). In May 2008, Decatur moved again as escorts of Reagan in the Persian Gulf, then in 2009 in the western Pacific. In April 2013, it was ordered to march towards North Korea.