USS John S. McCain (DDG-56)
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 John S. McCain (DDG -56 ) is a destroyer in the United States Navy, who belongs to the Arleigh Burke-class. It was named after Admiral John S. McCain, sr. and his son John S. McCain, Jr. named, who also reached the admiral rank.
History
DDG- 56 was commissioned in 1988 and placed in September 1991 at Bath Iron Works in Kiel. After only a little more than a year, the ship could roll off the stack and be baptized. Godmother was the wife of Senator and descendants of the McCain, John McCain. After the final outfitting and sea trials, the shipyard John S. McCain was put into service on July 2, 1994.
First rides led by the ship from Pearl Harbor, 1996 in support of Operation Southern Watch. Also in 1998 operated the McCain in the Persian Gulf, this time as part of the battle group to the USS Independence (CV- 62). In 2001, the destroyer USS Kitty Hawk (CV- 63) on the exercise Excercise Tandem Thrust ( with the Royal Australian Navy ) and CSOFEX ( with the Navy of South Korea ) part.
2002 was followed by an application as part of Operation Enduring Freedom, in 2003 then the exercise Exercise Keen Sword with the Navy of Japan. 2006 and 2007 took the destroyer to the Kitty Hawk participated in Exercise Valiant Shield. In August 2008, the destroyer visited Australia, there to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the visit to Australia of the Great White Fleet. In June 2009, McCain went off the Philippines, as on June 10, a Chinese submarine collided with the towed sonar of the destroyer. Just a few days later shadowed the McCain a North Korean freighter that could deliver weapons under certain circumstances, bypassing an existing embargo to Myanmar.
In September 2010, John S. McCain took part in an anti-submarine exercise with the South Korean navy in the Yellow Sea. Purpose was to deter North Korea. In December, the large-scale exercise Keen Sword followed with the Japanese Navy. In April 2013, it was ordered to North Korea in response to the tensions on the peninsula.