USS BOXER LHD4 Assault Carrier photos

Crew members assigned to the multi-purpose amphibious assault USS Boxer (LHD 4) man-the-rails as the ship returns to its homeport at Naval Base San Diego.

USS Essex (LHD-2) Amphibious Assault Ship USN

USS ESSEX (LHD-2) multipurpose amphibious assault ships is the second ship in the WASP class
Displacement: 40,500 tons (empty)
Length: 844 ft (257 m)
Beam: 106 ft (32 m)
Draft: 28 ft (8.5 m) (full load)
Propulsion: Geared steam turbines
Speed: 24+ knots
Boats and landing
craft carried: 3 LCACs or multiple LCUs
Troops: 1,800
Complement: 73 officers, 1109 enlisted
Armament: RAM, NATO Sea Sparrow, Mk 15 CIWS, .50-caliber M2HB machine gun
Aircraft carried: up to 36, including: UH-1N Huey, AH-1W Cobra, CH-53 Super Stallion, CH-46 Sea Knight, MH-60 Seahawk, AV-8B Harrier
Motto: Take Notice
Nickname: "The Iron Gator"

uss wasp wallpapers USN lhd1

The United States Navy Wasp class amphibious assault ships has an air group of helicopters supplemented by a squadron of up to eight AV-8B Harrier II V/STOL ground-attack aircraft.up to three Landing Craft Air Cushion (LCAC) hovercraft or Landing Craft Utility (LCUs). The Wasp class ship design was derived from the earlier Tarawa class design.

uss iowa battleship pictures

uss iowa bb61

The United States Navy Iowa class fast battleships
specification
Displacement: 45,000 tons
dimensions
Length: 887 feet 3 inch (270 m)
Beam: 108 feet (32.9 m)
Draft: 37 feet 2 in (11.3 m)
Speed: 33 knots (61 km/h)
Complement: 151 officers, 2637 enlisted
Armament:
1982:
9 x 50 cal. Mark 7 16inch naval guns
12 × 38 cal. Mark 12 5inch naval guns
32 x BGM-109 Tomahawk cruise missiles
16 x RGM-84 Harpoon Anti-Ship missiles
4 x 20 mm/76 cal. Phalanx CIWS
Belt Armor: 12.1 inch (307 mm)
Bulkheads: 11.3 inch (287 mm)
Barbettes: 11.6 to 17.3 in (295 to 439 mm)
Turrets Armor: 19.7 inch (500 mm)
Decks Armor: 7.5 inch (190 mm)
Aircraft carried: floatplanes, helicopters, UAVs

Fletcher class destroyer pictures

uss Fletcher dd445


The us Navy Fletcher-class destroyers were in service in World War II, named for Admiral Frank F. Fletcher
The Fletcher class was the largest class of destroyer and one of the most successful and popular with the destroyer men themselves.Their flush deck construction added structural strength, although it did make them rather cramped.
specification
Displacement: 2,500 tons (full load)
dimensions
Length: 376.5 feet
Beam: 39.5 feet
Draft: 12.5 feet
Propulsion: 4 oil fired boilers; 2 ge geared steam turbines; 2 screws 60,000shp
Speed: 36.5 knots (67.6 km/h)
Range: 5,500 miles at 15 knots
Complement: 329 officers and men
Armament: • 5 × 5inch 127 mm naval guns,
• 6–10 × 40mm Bofors AA guns
• 7–10 × 20mm AA guns,
• 10 × 21" (533mm) torpedo tubes (2×5),
• 6 × K-guns,
• 2 × depth charge racks

wwii destroyer uss Mahan class pictures

USS Mahan DD364

USS Downes DD375

USS Tucker DD374


The United States naval ship Mahan class destroyers served in the us navy before and during World War II.The lead ship of the class was named for Alfred T. Mahan, a Naval officer and theorist on sea power.The Mahans were the second and most numerous of the six classes of 1500-ton pre-war destroyers that modernized the United States Navy.

The last two ships, USS Dunlap and USS Fanning were modified slightly and sometimes referred to as the Dunlap-class.
specification
Displacement: 1,450 tons
dimensions
Length: 341' 4" feet
Beam: 34' 8" feet
Draught: 17 feet
Propulsion: 4 Boilers
2 GE Turbines
Two shafts
49,000 horsepower
Speed: 35 knots (65 km/h)
Complement: 204 officers and crew
Armament: As built 1936:

Gun director above bridge.
5 x 5inch 127mm naval guns in five Mark 21 DP pedestal mounts.

12 x 21"(533 mm) torpedo tubes on three four tube mounts.
4 x .50cal(12.7mm) Water Cooled AA gun in single mounts.
2 depth charge roll-off stern racks.
cira 1944:

Mk33 Gun Fire Control System
4 x 5 inch 127mm 38cal naval guns in four Mark 21 DP pedestal mounts.
2 x Mk51 Gun Directors for 40mm mounts.
4 x Bofors 40mm anti aircraft guns in two twin mounts.
6 to 8 x Oerlikon 20mm AA gun in six to eight single mounts.
12 x 21" (533 mm) torpedo tubes.
2 x Depth charge roll-off stern racks.
4 x K-gun depth charge projectors. Port and starboard on the main deck

Farragut class destroyer us navy 1960s

USS William V. Pratt DDG-44

USS King DDG-41


USS Luce DDG38

The United States Navy Farragut class Guided missile frigate sometimes referred to as the Coontz class
USS Farragut DDG37 was commissioned on December 10, 1960.Farragut was reclassified as a guided missile destroyer on June 30, 1975 and designated DDG37.
The ten ships commissioned in 1959–61 beginning with Bath Iron Works’ pair, Dewey and Preble. Armed with the new Terrier surface-to-air missile in a twin launcher mounted aft, their careers were contemporaneous with the smaller Charles F. Adams-class destroyers (DDG, initially armed with the same missiles). All ten were modernized from time to time over the next twenty years until 1982
SPECIFICATIONS
Displacement: 5,648 tons (full load)
dimensions
Length: 512.5 feet
Beam: 52.3 feet
Draught: 17.8 feet
Propulsion: 2 shaft
2 Allis-Chalmers Turbines
4 boilers
85,000 horsepower
Speed: 32 knots
Range: 5,000 nmi at 20 knots
Complement: 360
Sensors and
processing systems: 1 AN/SPS-10 surface search RADAR
1 AN/SPS-37 air search RADAR
1 AN/SPS-39 3D air search RADAR
1 AN/SPG-53 gun fire control RADAR
2 AN/SPG-55 Terrier fire control RADAR
AN/SQS-23 SONAR[4]
Armament: 1x Mark 13 Launcher Terrier surface to air missile
1x 5inch (127 mm)
1x ASROC Launcher
6x 12.8inch (324 mm) ASW TT
8x Harpoon SSM

spruance class destroyer us navy 1970s

uss O'Brien DD-975

uss Briscoe DD977

uss Stump DD978

line drawing of spruance class destroyer

Soviet and U.S. naval ships are docked at the piers during a goodwill visit by the Soviet warships to San Diego navy base. The vessels include, from the foreground, the repair ship USS JASON (AR-8), the Soviet Sovremenny class destroyer BOYEVOY, spruance class destroyer USS MERRILL (DD-976), the Soviet Kaliningradneft class support tanker ARGUN and the Soviet Udaloy class destroyer ADMIRAL VINOGRADOV, the guided missile frigate USS MCCLUSKY (FFG-41) and the guided missile destroyer USS BERKELEY (DDG-15), background.

Arabian Gulf (Nov. 12, 2000) -- An aerial view of the U.S. Navy destroyer USS Fletcher (DD 992) operating in the Arabian Gulf in support of Exercise Arabian Shark 2000. U.S. Navy photo by Photographer's Mate 1st Class David J. Weideman

Eastern Pacific (Jun. 25, 2002) -- The U.S. Navy destroyer USS Fife (DD 991) is the U.S. Task Group flagship for the Pacific Phase of the annual UNITAS exercise conducted between June 27 and July 11, 2002, with naval forces from five nations off the coast of
Chile. The ships five-month deployment to the Eastern Pacific Ocean for Counter-Drug Operations and the UNITAS exercise is the final deployment for the Spruance-class destroyer, which is scheduled to be de-commissioned in February 2003
The U.S. Navy Spruance-class destroyer was the primary destroyer built during the 1970s,the first ship uss Spruance DD963 was Commissioned 1975
The Spru-cans was designed for anti-submarine warfare (ASW) with point defense anti-aircraft warfare (AAW) missiles; 24 ships of this class were upgraded with the installation of a 61 cell Vertical Launch Missile System (VLS) capable of launching Tomahawk missiles. upgrades provided anti-ship and land attack capabilities.Despite their "DD" designation indicating gun destroyers, their primary armament was the missiles they carried, and they should properly have been designated DDG (or perhaps CG, given that they were comparable in size to cruisers)
The Spruance-class were the first large U.S. Naval ships to use gas turbine propulsion; they have four General Electric LM2500 gas turbines.
specification
Displacement: 9100 long tons full load
dimensions
Length: 529 feet waterline; 563 feet overall
Beam: 55 feet
Draft: 29 feet
Propulsion: 4 LM2500 gas turbines, 2 shafts, 80,000 horsepower
maximum Speed: 32.5 knots (60 km/h)
Range: 6,000 nautical miles at 20 knots
3,300 nautical miles (6000 km) at 30 knots (56 km/h)
Complement: 19 officers, 315 enlisted

weapons: 2 x 5inch 127mm naval guns
2 x Phalanx CIWS Mark15 20 mm guns
1 x 8 cell ASROC launcher (removed)
1 x 8 cell NATO Sea Sparrow Mk29 missile launcher
2 x quadruple Harpoon missile canisters
2 x Mark 32 triple 12.75 inch (324 mm) torpedo tubes (Mk 46 torpedoes)


1 x 61 cell Mk 41 VLS launcher for Tomahawk missiles
1 x 21 cell RIM-116 Rolling Airframe Missile launcher
Aircraft carried: 2 x Sikorsky SH-60 Seahawk LAMPS III helicopters.