USS Mahan (DDG-72)

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 Mahan (DDG- 72) is a destroyer of the Arleigh Burke class. She is the first ship of the second contract section of the class. The United States Navy named after the ship Alfred Thayer Mahan, the naval strategists.

History

DDG -72 was commissioned in 1992 and placed in August 1995 at Bath Iron Works in Kiel. Already in June 1996, launching and naming ceremony could be performed. Was made official in the service Mahan 1998.

In their first use, it moved with the battle group to the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN -69) in the Persian Gulf. 2002 drove the destroyer with the carrier USS George Washington ( CVN -73) and conducted exercises with the Navy of Morocco. In 2004, Mahan sailed the Mediterranean as part of NATO Standing Naval Force Mediterranean.

As of January 2007, the Standing NATO Maritime Group Mahan was assigned to 1 until May, she was flagship for the commander of the fleet, Rear Admiral Michael Mahon, of USS Normandy (CG -60) but was then replaced. 2009 drove the destroyer as part of the multinational Combined Task Force 151 off Somalia, there to protect shipping from pirates. In November 2010, the next ride in European waters began. In August 2013, Mahan was ordered to the eastern Mediterranean to reinforce the local fleet in terms of a conceivable intervention in Syria.