Spruance-class Destroyer

The Spruance-class destroyer were a class of multirole destroyer was developed by the United States to replace a large number of World War II-built Allen M. Sumner and Gearing-class destroyers, and was the primary destroyer built for the U.S. Navy during the 1970s. Both the Kidd and Ticonderoga-class ships are based on the Spruance-class design.
 
Serving for three decades, the Spruance-class was designed to escort a carrier group with a primary ASW mission. First commissioned in 1975, the class was designed with gas-turbine propulsion, all-digital weapons systems, automated 5-inch guns and Tomahawk cruise missiles. Rather than extend the life of the class, the Navy opted to accelerate its retirement. The last ship of the class was decommissioned in 2005, with most examples broken up or destroyed as targets. A few nations including Australia and Mexico have license built their own Spruance-class destroyers.
==Specifications==
*Role: Destroyer (Hull designation symbol DD)
*Service Period: 1975-2005 (USN)
*Dimensions
**Length: 564.3 feet (172 meters)
**Beam: 55.1 feet (16.8 meters)
**Draught: 28.9 feet (8.8 meters)
**Displacement: 9,200 tons
*Crew Complement: 334 (19 officers and 315 enlisted)
*Power: 80,000 shp
*Propulsion: 4 x General Electric LM2500 Gas Turbines (produces 80,000 shp)
*Range: 6,000 nautical miles (11,000 km; 6,900 mi) at 20 knots (37.04 km/h), 3,300 nautical miles (6,100 ) at 30 knots (55.56 km/h)
*Speed: 32.5 Knots (60.19 km/h)
*Sensor Suite
**AN/SPQ-9 Gunfire Control Radar
**AN/SQR-19 Towed Array Passive Sonar
**AN/SPS-40 Air Search Radar
**AN/SQS-53 Bow Mounted Active Sonar
**AN/SPS-55 Surface Search Radar
**AN/SPG-60 Fire Control Radar
*Electronic Warfare and Countermeasures
**AN/SLQ-25 Nixie Torpedo Countermeasures
**AN/SLQ-32 Electronic Warfare Suite
**AN/SLQ-49 Inflatable Decoys
**Mark 36 SRBOC Decoy Launching System
*Armament
**1 x 5"/54-caliber mark 45 naval gun
**1 x 8-cell Mk.29 NATO Sea Sparrow Missile Launcher (fires RIM-7 Sea Sparrow Missiles)
**2 x 4-cell Mk.141 Harpoon Missile Launcher (fires RGM-84 Harpoon Anti-Ship Missiles)
**1 x 61-cell Mk.41 (fires RGM-109 Tomahawk Cruise Missiles and RUM-139 VL-ASROC ASW Missiles)
**1 x 8-cell ASROC Missile Launcher (fires RUR-5 ASROC ASW Missiles) - replaced by Mk.41 VLS
**2 x 20mm Phalanx CIWS (Block 1B)
**1 x 21-cell Mk.49 Rolling Airframe Missile Launcher (fires RIM-116 Rolling Airframe Missiles)
**2 x Mk.32 12.75" triple fire torpedo tubes (fires Mark 46 Torpedoes)
*Aircraft Carried: 2 x Sikorsky SH-60 Seahawk
==Unit Run==
 Name  	 Hull Number 	 Commission-Decommission 	 Status  	 Link  	 	
United States Navy 	United States Navy 	United States Navy 	United States Navy 	United States Navy 	United States Navy 	United States Navy
USS Spruance 	DD-963 	1975–2005 	Disposed of in support of Fleet training exercise 	 	 	
USS Paul F. Foster 	DD-964 	1976–2003 	Active, in service as EDD-964 	 	 	
USS Kinkaid 	DD-965 	1976–2003 	Disposed of in support of Fleet training exercise 	 	 	
USS Hewitt 	DD-966 	1976–2001 	Disposed of by scrapping, dismantling 	 	 	
USS Elliot 	DD-967 	1977–2003 	Disposed of in support of Fleet training exercise 	 	 	
USS Arthur W. Radford	DD-968 	1977–2003 	Disposed of as artificial reef on 10 August 2011 off coast of Delaware	 	 	
USS Peterson 	DD-969 	1977–2002 	Disposed of in support of Fleet training exercise 	 	 	
USS Caron 	DD-970 	1977–2001 	Disposed of in support of Fleet training exercise 	 	 	
USS David R. Ray 	DD-971 	1977–2002 	Disposed of in support of Fleet training exercise 	 	 	
USS Oldendorf 	DD-972 	1978–2003 	Disposed of in support of Fleet training exercise 	 	 	
USS John Young 	DD-973 	1978–2002 	Disposed of in support of Fleet training exercise 	 	 	
USS Comte de Grasse 	DD-974 	1978–1998 	Disposed of in support of Fleet training exercise 	 	 	
USS O'Brien 	DD-975 	1977–2004 	Disposed of in support of Fleet training exercise 	 	 	
USS Merrill 	DD-976 	1978–1998 	Disposed of in support of Fleet training exercise 	 	 	
USS Briscoe 	DD-977 	1978–2003 	Disposed of in support of Fleet training exercise 	 	 	
USS Stump 	DD-978 	1978–2004 	Disposed of in support of Fleet training exercise 	 	 	
USS Conolly 	DD-979 	1978–1998 	Museum ship in St. Louis, Missouri. 	 	 	
USS Moosbrugger 	DD-980 	1978–2000 	Disposed of by scrapping, dismantling 	 	 	
USS John Hancock 	DD-981 	1978–2000 	Disposed of by scrapping, dismantling 	 	 	
USS Nicholson 	DD-982 	1979–2002 	Disposed of in support of Fleet training exercise 	 	 	
USS John Rodgers 	DD-983 	1979–1998 	Disposed of by scrapping, dismantling 	 	 	
USS Leftwich 	DD-984 	1979–1998 	Disposed of in support of Fleet training exercise 	 	 	
USS Cushing 	DD-985 	1979–2005 	Disposed of in support of Fleet training exercise 	 	 	
USS Harry W. Hill 	DD-986 	1979–1998 	Disposed of in support of Fleet training exercise 	 	 	
USS O'Bannon 	DD-987 	1979–2005 	Disposed of in support of Fleet training exercise 	 	 	
USS Thorn 	DD-988 	1980–2004 	Disposed of in support of Fleet training exercise 	 	 	
USS Deyo 	DD-989 	1980–2003 	Disposed of in support of Fleet training exercise 	 	 	
USS Ingersoll 	DD-990 	1980–1998 	Disposed of in support of Fleet training exercise 	 	 	
USS Fife 	DD-991 	1980–2003 	Disposed of in support of Fleet training exercise 	 	 	
USS Fletcher 	DD-992 	1980–2004 	Disposed of in support of Fleet training exercise 	 	 	
USS Hayler 	DD-997 	1983–2003 	Disposed of in support of Fleet training exercise 	 	 	
Royal Australian Navy	Royal Australian Navy 	Royal Australian Navy 	Royal Australian Navy 	Royal Australian Navy	Royal Australian Navy	Royal Australian Navy
HMAS New South Wales 	D41 	2002-Present 	Active Service 	 	 	
HMAS Victoria 	D42 	2002-Present 	Active Service 	 	 	
HMAS Queensland 	D43 	2002-Present 	Active Service 	 	 	
HMAS Tasmania 	D44 	2002-Present 	Active Service 	 	 	
Mexican Navy 	Mexican Navy 	Mexican Navy 	Mexican Navy 	Mexican Navy 	Mexican Navy 	Mexican Navy
ARM Tampico 	DDG-103 	2007-Present 	Active Service 	 	 	
ARM Zumpango 	DDG-104 	2007-Present 	Active Service 	 	 	
ARM Papaloapan 	DDG-105 	2008-Present 	Active Service 	 	 	
ARM Yucatán 	DDG-106 	2008-Present 	Active Service 	 	 	
ARM Constante 	DDG-107 	2008-Present 	Active Service 	 	 	
ARM Veracruz 	DDG-108 	2009-Present 	Active Service 	 	 	
==See Also==
===Related Development===
*Kidd/Ontario-class
*Ticonderoga-class
===Comparable Vessels===
*Admiral-class Destroyer
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