USS Donald Cook (DDG-75)

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 Donald Cook ( DDG -75 ) is a destroyer in the United States Navy and is one of the Arleigh Burke - class.

History

The Donald Cook, named after a U.S. soldier who died in a prisoner of war of the Viet Cong, was laid in 1996 at Bath Iron Works on stack and placed into service in late 1998.

Your first mission trip began the Cook in June 2000 with the carrier battle group led by the USS George Washington ( CVN -73) towards the Mediterranean and Persian Gulf. There she also assisted her sister ship USS Cole ( DDG -67) after the terrorist attack on the ship. In the next mission, from August 2001 onwards, took the Cook in the exercise Joint Task Force Exercise off the U.S. east coast in part, from February to March 2002 Strong Resolve in the waters of northern Europe. In 2003, the Cook their second mission trip through, this time as part of Operation Iraqi Freedom with the USS Harry S. Truman (CVN -75). On March 19 the Cook fired from the Red Sea while the first cruise missiles at targets in Iraq from.

2006 and 2007 laid the destroyer in the Mediterranean and the Persian Gulf, the Cook in 2008 took part in the exercise Joint Warrior 08. During the maneuver UNITAS 2009, the destroyer shelled the decommissioned USS Asked Conolly (DD -979 ) during a SINKEX with an AGM -84 Harpoon. Following the Cook moved for seven months in the Persian Gulf, the Gulf of Aden and the Mediterranean.