USS Howard (DDG-83)

9200 tons

156 meters

20 meters

9.5 meters

32 officers, 350 teams

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

31 knots

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

The USS Howard ( DDG -83 ) is a destroyer of the Arleigh Burke-class. The United States Navy named after the ship Jimmie E. Howard, a highly decorated Marine, who died in 1993 and has fought both in Korea and in Vietnam.

History

DDG -83 was added in 1996 in order and placed the end of 1998 at Bath Iron Works in Kiel. After just under a year, the destroyer was launched and was baptized. The Howard was made in October 2001 by the shipyard sea trials officially in service.

2004 operated the Howard with the USS John C. Stennis (CVN- 74) exercises in the Pacific. 2008, the destroyer moved to the USS Ronald Reagan ( CVN -76) in the Persian Gulf. On this trip, the Howard stayed with the Ukrainian cargo ship Faina, which was hijacked off Somalia by pirates and war, has loaded, among other battle tank T -72, for Kenya. The end of 2008 the group went to the home to San Diego. Shortly thereafter came out of the port - wave of Howard from Hyrdaulikflüssigkeit, whereupon it was switched off. With reduced speed, the Howard drove the over 9000 miles to Guam. In Apra Harbor examined divers and technicians, the drive systems and finally gave the green light for the crossing of the Pacific, 9000 km further, with only one shaft. After a refueling stop at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, the Howard reached San Diego on 29 November, the ship was docked there and repaired.

2009 was followed by a transfer to the Reagan in the western Pacific Ocean. In June 2011, Howard took part in an exercise with the Malaysian Navy.