USS Pinckney (DDG-91)

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, 2 25 mm guns

The USS Pinckney (DDG -91 ) is a destroyer of the Arleigh Burke-class of the United States Navy. The ship is named for Cook First Class William Pinckney, of the Navy Cross was awarded for his efforts during the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands.

History

The Pinckney was given in 1998 in order and placed in July 2001 at Ingalls Shipbuilding in Kiel. After less than a year, the destroyer was launched in May 2004, he was finally put into service. Home port was San Diego. In the further course of the year, followed by exercises and tests, including with Spanish units of Alvaro de Bazán - class. As the first unit of its class, the ship with the mine action system AN/WLD-1 Remote Mine Hunting System is equipped.

2006 Pinckney moved for the first time in the Pacific, among other things, she participated in the International Maritime some exposure in Sydney, Australia. Followed in 2007 by an insert during exercise Valiant Shield 2008 during RIMPAC. In 2009, she accompanied the USS Nimitz (CVN -68) as escorts in the West Pacific, from the end of 2011 it is the USS John C. Stennis (CVN -74 ) in the Indian Ocean and the beginning of 2012 in the Pacific. In March 2014, the ship participated in the search for the missing aircraft at the time of the flight Malaysia Airlines MH 370

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 antiaircraft 2007 Close- In Weapon System has been installed in the form of the Phalanx MK 15 RAM later behind the aft funnel structure, which was not originally intended for the construction from DDG 85 (Block IV).