USS MITSCHER DDG-57 and USS WINSTON S. CHURCHILL DDG-81 alongside at HMNB Clyde.
Name: USS Mitscher DDG-57
Namesake: Admiral Marc A. Mitscher
Ordered: 13 December 1988
Builder: Ingalls Shipbuilding
Laid down: 12 February 1992
Launched: 7 May 1993
Commissioned: 10 December 1994
Homeport: Norfolk, Virginia
Motto: Seize the Day
Status: in active service
General characteristics
Class and type: Arleigh Burke-class destroyer
Displacement: Light: approx. 6,800 long tons (6,900t)
Full: approx. 8,900. long tons (9,000t)
Length: 505ft (154m)
Beam: 66ft (20m)
Draft: 31 ft (9.4m)
Propulsion: 4 General Electric LM2500-30 gas turbines, two shafts, 100,000shp (75MW)
Speed: >30knots (56km/h)
Range: 4,400 nautical miles at 20 knots
(8,100km at 37km/h)
Complement: 33 commissioned officers
38 chief petty officers
210 enlisted personnel
Sensors and processing systems:
AN/SPY-1D 3D radar
AN/SPS-67(V)2 surface-search radar
AN/SPS-73(V)12 surface-search radar
AN/SPG-62 fire-control radar
AN/SQS-53C sonar array
AN/SQR-19 tactical towed array sonar
AN/SQQ-28 LAMPS III shipboard system
Electronic warfare and decoys:
AN/SLQ-32(V)2 Electronic Warfare System
AN/SLQ-25 Nixie Torpedo Countermeasures
MK 36 MOD 12 Decoy Launching System
AN/SLQ-39 CHAFF Buoys
Armament: 1 × 29 cell, 1 × 61 cell Mk41 vertical launching systems with 90 × RIM-156 SM-2, BGM-109 Tomahawk or RUM-139 VL-ASROC missiles
2 x Mk 141 Harpoon Missile Launcher SSM
1 × Mark 45 5/54 in (127/54mm)
2 × 25mm chain gun
4 × .50caliber (12.7mm) guns
2 × 20mm Phalanx CIWS
2 × Mk 32 triple torpedo tubes
Aircraft carried: 2 Sikorsky MH-60R helicopters can be embarked