USS Nitze (DDG-94)

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, 1 Phalanx CIWS, two 25mm guns

The USS Nitze (DDG -94 ) is a destroyer of the Arleigh Burke-class. The ship is named after Paul H. Nitze, who had occupied among other things the post of United States Secretary of the Navy. What was unusual here is that the naming was to be announced to Nitze's lifetime, and he was personally present at the baptism.

History

DDG -94 was commissioned in 1998. The keel of the ship was made in September 2002, the construction took about one and a half years. When Launched on 3 April 2004, the launching ceremony was performed godmother was Nitze's wife Elisabeth Porter. The commissioning of the Nitze took place on 5 March 2005.

In May 2006, Nitze took part in the 19th Annual Fleet Week New York City. In autumn, the destroyer then led exercises with the landing ship USS Bataan (LHD- 5). The so-called Composite Training Unit Exercise took place off the coast of North Carolina in the Atlantic. In May 2008, Nitze took, led by the USS Kearsarge (LHD- 3) on the part of Fleet Week in New York. In August, the destroyer then moved to the side of the USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN -71) towards the Mediterranean. In April 2011, Nitze took part in the exercise UNITAS Atlantic. With the USS Enterprise ( CVN -65) laid the Destroyer in 2012 towards the Mediterranean and Indian Ocean.

Arming

For the defense of approaching missiles, the ship received the anti-aircraft missiles Evolved Sea Sparrow RIM -162 Missile ( ESSM ), which are fired from the Vertical Launching System. To further air defense was subsequently a Close- In Weapon System installed behind the aft funnel structure in the form of the Phalanx MK 15 RAM 2007 /2008, which was not foreseen in the construction from DDG 85 (Block IV).