USS Oscar Austin (DDG-79)

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 Oscar Austin (DDG -79 ) is a destroyer of the Arleigh Burke-class.

History

The Oscar Austin in 1994 was commissioned and placed in October 1997 at Bath Iron Works in Kiel. After a construction period of 13 months, the destroyer was launched and was made in 2000 in the United States Navy in service. The ship is named after Oscar P. Austin, a Private First Class of the United States Marine Corps who was killed in the Vietnam War.

Since the ship is the first of the highly modified production batch Flight IIA within the Arleigh Burke-class, is rarely spoken of the Oscar Austin class. The modification includes, among other things, adding a hangar for two helicopters.

Your first mission trip graduated from the Oscar Austin 2002/2003, where she was involved in the first attacks on Iraq as part of Operation Iraqi Freedom. 2004 visited the destroyer in June Kiel, where they dropped anchor in the Tirpitz. From September 2005 to March 2006 the ship completed another trip to the Persian Gulf. 2007 moved the ship back into the waters of the Middle East, there to protect shipping from pirates about assaults. The task force led by the carrier USS Harry S. Truman (CVN -75).

In 2009, the destroyer participated in the UNITAS exercise, during which the Oscar Austin in the sinking of the target ship USS Conolly (DD -979 ) was involved. 2010 was followed by another laying on the side of Truman.