USS Farragut (DDG-99) destroyer at Fleet Week (April 29 to May 6, 2019) at Port Everglades in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
General Information:
Name: USS Farragut
Namesake: Admiral David Farragut
Class and type: Arleigh Burke-class destroyer
Homeport: Naval Station Mayport, Mayport, Florida
Motto: Prepared for Battle
Builder: General Dynamics Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine
Complement: 290 officers and enlisted
Hull Length (Overall): 509.5 ft
Beam: 66 ft
Draft (Navigation): 31 ft
Displacement: 9,300 Tons
Speed: 30+ Knots
Weapons:
One MK45 MOD 1 5”/62 Caliber Gun Mount
Two MK 41 Vertical Launching Systems
One CIWS Blk 1B Phalynx Weapon System
Evolved Sea Sparrow
Vertical Launch ASROC, Standard, and Tomahawk Missiles
Two MK 32 MOD 14 Triple Torpedo Tubes
MK 46 and MK 50 Torpedoes
MK-53 Decoy Launching System
Super Rapid Blooming Off-board Chaff
Sensors:
AN/SPY-1D 3-D Search/Track Radar
Bridgemaster Navigational Radar
AN/SPS-67(V)3 Surface Search Radar
AN/SQQ-89(V)15 USW Combat System Suite
AN/SLQ-32(V)2 Electronic Warfare System
Engineering:
4 LM2500 Marine Gas Turbine Engines (100,000 HP)
3 Rolls Royce 3000 kW Gas Turbine Generators
2 Shafts with CRP (Controllable Reversible Pitch) Propellers
Air Power:
Aircraft: Seahawk SH-60 Light Airborne Multi-Purpose Helos
Milestones:
Ordered: March 6, 1998
Keel Date: January 7, 2004
Launch Date: July 9, 2005
Commission Date: June 10, 2006
Deployed Mar 08 on maiden deployment
Commissioned on 10 June 2006, USS FARRAGUT (DDG-99) is named in honor of the US Navy's first Admiral, David Glasgow Farragut, and is the 5th ship to bear his name. FARRAGUT is an Arleigh Burke Class Guided Missile Destroyer fitted with the latest technology to fulfill any offensive or defensive tasking. One of the most capable ships ever put to sea, her crew is well-trained and "Prepared for Battle!"
Farragut's keel was laid down on 9 January 2004 at the Bath Iron Works in Bath, Maine. She was christened on 23 July 2005, with Senator Susan Collins of Maine as her sponsor. Farragut was commissioned on 10 June 2006.
Farragut is equipped with the "Smart Ship" data distribution and control system.
Engagements:
On 21 February 2010, a SH-60B Seahawk helicopter from Farragut disrupted two attempts by Somali pirates to attack the Tanzanian vessel MV Barakaale 1. The helicopter then stopped the pirate skiff as it attempted to speed away, by firing warning shots across its bow. A Visit, Board, Search and Seizure (VBSS) team from Farragut boarded the vessel and the eight suspected pirates were taken aboard Farragut.
For the majority of her 2010 deployment the CENTCOM AOR, Farragut served as flagship of Combined Task Force 151 (CTF-151), on an anti-piracy mission. On 1 April 2010, three suspected pirate boats fired on a Sierra Leone flagged tanker, MV Evita, north-west of the Seychelles. Evita was fired on, but managed to escape, in part by crew firing flares at their attackers. They reported the attack to CTF-151, and Farragut responded. After boarding the pirate skiffs, and moving the pirates to the smaller, less capable skiffs, Farragut destroyed the pirate "mother" skiff.
On 29 January 2013 Yemeni authorities working alongside Farragut intercepted a ship in the Arabian Sea carrying an illegal-arms cache. The cache included surface-to-air missiles, C-4 explosives, rocket propelled grenades and other weapons.
On 28 April 2015, Farragut responded to a distress call from MV Maersk Tigris, which was travelling through the Strait of Hormuz when she came under fire from an Iranian patrol boat.
* Info from Wikipedia and USS Farragut official website
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