featuring
Destroyers - USA
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"Coontz" Class
Guided missile destroyers:
10 units commissioned 1960 - 1961
Displacement, tons: 4580 standard,
- 5907 full load
Dimessions, meters: 156,3 x
16 x 7,1
Missiles: 8 x 4 Harpoon, -
Standard SM-2 launchers (1 x Twin launcher - 40 missiles carried)
Guns: 1 x 127 mm
A/S weapons: 1 Asroc 8-tube
launcher, - 2 trople torpedo tubes.
Propulsion: Geared turbines,
- 85.000 shp, 2 shafts, - speed: 33 knots
USS "William V. Pratt DDG 44
Photographed in Puerto Cabello,
Venezuela, Dec. 01, 1975
(Photography by Karsten Petersen ©)
USS "William V. Pratt DDG 44
Photographed in Puerto Cabello,
Venezuela, Dec. 01. 1975
(Photography by Karsten Petersen ©)
USS "William V. Pratt DDG 44
Photographed in Puerto Cabello,
Venezuela, Dec. 01. 1975
(Photography by Karsten Petersen ©)
USS "William V. Pratt DDG 44
- alongside pier side by side
with "Garcia" class frigate USS "Brumby" -
Photographed in Puerto Cabello,
Venezuela, Nov. 27. 1975
(Photography by Karsten Petersen ©)
USS "William V. Pratt DDG 44
- alongside pier side by side
with "Garcia" class frigate USS "Brumby" -
Photographed in Puerto Cabello,
Venezuela, - Nov. 27. 1975
(Photography by Karsten Petersen ©)
USS "William V. Pratt DDG 44
- a closer view -
Photographed in Puerto Cabello,
Venezuela, Nov. 30. 1975
(Photography by Karsten Petersen ©)
USS "William V. Pratt DDG 44
- mast top arrangement -
Photographed in Puerto Cabello,
Venezuela, Nov. 30. 1975
(Photography by Karsten Petersen ©)
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USS "Gurke" DD 783
Gearing Class Destroyer, US
Navy.
(Photographed in Hong Kong, 1974.)
(Photography by Karsten Petersen ©)
USS "Hull", - DD945
Forrest Sherman Class Destroyer,
- US Navy-
(Take note of the big 8" gun
forward. This caliber gun is VERY unusual for a destroyer.)
(Photographed off the Luzon coast, Phillippines
in the seventies.)
(Photography by Karsten Petersen ©)
USS "Waddell" DDG 24
Charles F. Adams Class
Guided missile Destroyer, US Navy.
(Photographed in Kaohsiung, Taiwan in 1974.)
(Photography by Karsten Petersen ©)
USS "John Paul Jones"
DDG 53
Guided Missile Destroyer, Arleigh
Burke Class, US Navy
(Photographed in Hong Kong Sept.01.1997.)
(Photography by Karsten Petersen ©)
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Spruance Class
Built: 32 units, 1972 - 1980
Displacement: 7810 tons full
load.
Length: 171,7 meters
Beam: 16,8 meters
Draught: 8,8 meters
Aircraft: 1 or two helicopters
Missiles: 2 Harpoon Launchers,
1 Sea Sparrow Launcher
Guns: 2 pcs. 5' (127
mm) in single mounts, - and 2 pcs. 20 mm Phalanx guns.
A/S Weapons: 1 Asroc, 8-tube
launcher, - 2 tripple torprdo tubes
Propulsion: 4 gas turbines,
- 80.000 shp, - 2 shafts, - 33 knots.
Crew: 296
"Deyo" DD989
Spruance Class, US Navy
(Photographed in Suez, Aug.
4. 1998.
(Photography by Karsten Petersen ©)
"O'Bannon" DD 987 (?)
Spruance Class (?), - US Navy
Photographed in the Marmara
Sea, off Turkey, May 1980.
(Photography by Karsten Petersen ©)