USS Kidd

* 96-cell Mk 41 VLS for: RIM-66 Standard Missile 2, BGM-109 Tomahawk, RUM-139 VL-ASROC missiles

### Propulsion

4x General Electric LM2500-30 gas turbines* 2 shafts

## Combat Records

### Deployments

* Anti-Piracy operations
* Urocyan War

The **USS *Kidd* (DDG-100)** is a warship that appears within the *Foxtrot: Foxes in Arms* series. It is an *Arleigh Burke*-class guided missile destroyer, also called an Aegis destroyer, built to serve in the United States Navy. Bearing the name of a long lost naval officer, the ship is one of the most advanced surface combatants in the arsenal, and is mostly tasked with supporting larger ships.

The ship in the series is based on the real ship of the same name.

## Characteristics

### General Description

The USS *Kidd* is one of 70 *Arleigh Burke*-class guided-missile destroyers in service with the Navy, with around 20 ships more on the way for a projected 90 vessels total. Specifically, *Kidd* is one of the later variants of this class, a so called Flight IIA variant, one of 34 such vessels in service. According to its real-life counterpart’s technical features, the *Kidd* is 509 ft 6 inches (155.30 m) long, 66 ft (20 m) wide, and has a draft of 31 ft (9.4 m). She displaces roughly 9,200 tons at full load. Including two propeller shafts and four General Electric LM2500-30 gas turbines with the approximate shaft power of 100,000 shp (75-megawatt), she is able to attain the speed of more than 30 knots (or more than 55 km/h) at full throttle. On top of this, the ship has a maximum range of around 4,400 nmi (8,100 km) while cruising at 20 kn (37 km/h; 23 mph). The *Kidd* has a full crew compliment of 380 officers and enlisted sailors.

Being a Flight IIA destroyer, the *Kidd* has two hangars on her aft end, allowing the ship to carry around two helicopters, typically MH-60 Seahawks, for use in anti-submarine warfare.

### Armaments

*Kidd* is equipped with a single 5 in/62-caliber Mark 45 naval gun forward of the main superstructure. The 5-inch gun is a dual purpose weapon, able to engage ships, land targets, aircraft, and missiles. She also has a single Phalanx Close-In-Weapons System (CIWS) mounted on the aft end of the superstructure for close-in defense. There are two sets of Mark 41 Vertical Launching Systems (VLS) fore and aft of the super structure, making for a total of 96 cells and the possibility to carry that number of missiles. Typically, the ship can carry the Standard Missiles (SM-2, SM-3, or SM-6) and Evolved Sea Sparrow Missiles (ESSM) for surface-to-air targets, BGM-109 Tomahawk cruise missiles for striking faraway land targets, or RUM-139 VL-ASROC missiles for anti-submarine missions. The destroyer is also armed with two Mark 32 triple torpedo tubes stocked with Mk 45 MAKO torpedoes capable of sinking either ships or submarines.

### Sensors

The *Arleigh Burke*-class destroyer is equipped with the Aegis Combat System, which combines information from the ship's sensors to display a coherent image of the environment and guides weapons to targets using advanced tracking and fire control. Their SPY radars differ from traditional rotating radars that mechanically rotate 360 degrees for each sweep scan of the airspace. Instead, Aegis uses the AN/SPY-1D passive electronically scanned array (or the AN/SPY-6 active electronically scanned array on Flight III ships), which allows continual tracking of targets simultaneous to area scans. The system's computer control also allows centralization of the previously separate tracking and targeting functions. The system is also resistant to electronic countermeasures.

## History

USS *Kidd* was ordered in 1998 and completed on June 9, 2007. Her early career is relatively light, as she was involved with anti-piracy operations, namely rescuing an Iranian tanker from Somali pirates, and assisting in the search of a missing plane in both the South China Sea and later the Indian Ocean, gaining no results before the search was called off.

Several other operations with the rest of DESRON 23 followed this, including operations being a part of various carrier strike groups. *Kidd* would mainly act as an escort for aircraft carriers while also acting independently as a part of a surface action group (SAG). However, she would get her chance at active combat within the waning years of the 2010s and into the early 2020s.

### War Breaks Out

By 2019 through 2020, the Urocyan Empire was proving to be an increasing threat to not just the United States, but also the world. As such, the US Navy began a massive build up, plus increasing training regiments. *Kidd* and her crew would spend quite a bit of time training in anti-air, anti-surface, and anti-submarine combat in junction with other ships and aircraft. An assault was launched against US Navy assets all over the globe, striking vital naval ports and military air fields. *Kidd* was out on one of these naval exercises as this was going on, so she was spared from any attacks.

Following the formation of Battlegroup Delta, Commander Sewell Snow would be assigned as the Commodore of DESRON 23, using the *Kidd* as the command ship of the squadron. Periodically, he could do things from the destroyer's bridge, and sometimes act as Commodore via liaison from the battleship *Missouri*, which he previously held the XO position under Captain Arthur Snow, his older brother.

## Known Crew

Commander Sewell D. Snow - Commodore and sometimes CO of the ship