USS Lassen (DDG-82)

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 Lassen (DDG- 82) is a destroyer of the Arleigh Burke-class. The United States Navy named after the ship Clyde Everett Lassen, a naval aviator who was in the Vietnam War for rescuing downed comrades, the Medal of Honor.

History

DDG -82 was commissioned in 1995 and placed in August 1998 at Ingalls Shipbuilding in Kiel. After just over a year of construction, the destroyer was launched in October 1999 and was baptized. The leave was made in April 2001 by the shipyard sea trials officially in service.

Your first began laying the Let 2003, she was an escort ship for the carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN -70). In the western Pacific replaced the battlegroup actually stationed there USS Kitty Hawk (CV- 63) Reconditioning performed. As of 2005, let himself was stationed in Yokosuka. In 2006, the ship participated in Exercise Valiant Shield 2006. In September 2007, a joint maneuvers (Pacific Eagle) of the Russian Navy was carried out in the North Pacific, including the destroyer RFS Admiral Panteleyev ( 548 ) and the Let participated in the. 2008 Have moved back to the Kitty Hawk and took to the carrier in April participated in a port visit to Hong Kong.

End of March 2010, the destroyer was used to search for survivors aboard the Cheonan (PCC -772 ). The South Korean ship was torpedoed by official investigations off the North Korean coast, a North Korean submarine is said to have carried out the attack. In July 2010, the destroyer participated in the USS George Washington ( CVN -73) page along with South Korean forces in the exercise Invincible Spirit part. After the bombardment of Yeonpyeong, the destroyer moved again to the Washington side of the Yellow Sea.