Spruance-class Destroyer

The USS Spruace (DD-963), a Spruance-class destroyer.

The Spruance-class destroyer were a class of multirole destroyer was developed by the United States to replace a large number of World War II-built Allen M. Sumner and Gearing-class destroyers, and was the primary destroyer built for the U.S. Navy during the 1970s. Both the Kidd and Ticonderoga-class ships are based on the Spruance-class design.

Serving for three decades, the Spruance-class was designed to escort a carrier group with a primary ASW mission. First commissioned in 1975, the class was designed with gas-turbine propulsion, all-digital weapons systems, automated 5-inch guns and Tomahawk cruise missiles. Rather than extend the life of the class, the Navy opted to accelerate its retirement. The last ship of the class was decommissioned in 2005, with most examples broken up or destroyed as targets. A few nations including Australia and Mexico have license built their own Spruance-class destroyers.

Specifications

• Role: Destroyer (Hull designation symbol DD)
• Service Period: 1975-2005 (USN)
• Dimensions
  • Length: 564.3 feet (172 meters)
  • Beam: 55.1 feet (16.8 meters)
  • Draught: 28.9 feet (8.8 meters)
  • Displacement: 9,200 tons
• Crew Complement: 334 (19 officers and 315 enlisted)
• Power: 80,000 shp
• Propulsion: 4 x General Electric LM2500 Gas Turbines (produces 80,000 shp)
• Range: 6,000 nautical miles (11,000 km; 6,900 mi) at 20 knots (37.04 km/h), 3,300 nautical miles (6,100 ) at 30 knots (55.56 km/h)
• Speed: 32.5 Knots (60.19 km/h)
• Sensor Suite
  • AN/SPQ-9 Gunfire Control Radar
  • AN/SQR-19 Towed Array Passive Sonar
  • AN/SPS-40 Air Search Radar
  • AN/SQS-53 Bow Mounted Active Sonar
  • AN/SPS-55 Surface Search Radar
  • AN/SPG-60 Fire Control Radar
• Electronic Warfare and Countermeasures
  • AN/SLQ-25 Nixie Torpedo Countermeasures
  • AN/SLQ-32 Electronic Warfare Suite
  • AN/SLQ-49 Inflatable Decoys
  • Mark 36 SRBOC Decoy Launching System
• Armament
  • 1 x 5"/54-caliber mark 45 naval gun
  • 1 x 8-cell Mk.29 NATO Sea Sparrow Missile Launcher (fires RIM-7 Sea Sparrow Missiles)
  • 2 x 4-cell Mk.141 Harpoon Missile Launcher (fires RGM-84 Harpoon Anti-Ship Missiles)
  • 1 x 61-cell Mk.41 (fires RGM-109 Tomahawk Cruise Missiles and RUM-139 VL-ASROC ASW Missiles)
  • 1 x 8-cell ASROC Missile Launcher (fires RUR-5 ASROC ASW Missiles) - replaced by Mk.41 VLS
  • 2 x 20mm Phalanx CIWS (Block 1B)
  • 1 x 21-cell Mk.49 Rolling Airframe Missile Launcher (fires RIM-116 Rolling Airframe Missiles)
  • 2 x Mk.32 12.75" triple fire torpedo tubes (fires Mark 46 Torpedoes)
• Aircraft Carried: 2 x Sikorsky SH-60 Seahawk

Unit Run

Name	Hull Number	Commission-Decommission	Status	Link
United States Navy
USS Spruance	DD-963	1975–2005	Disposed of in support of Fleet training exercise	[1]
USS Paul F. Foster	DD-964	1976–2003	Active, in service as EDD-964	[2] [3]
USS Kinkaid	DD-965	1976–2003	Disposed of in support of Fleet training exercise	[4]
USS Hewitt	DD-966	1976–2001	Disposed of by scrapping, dismantling	[5]
USS Elliot	DD-967	1977–2003	Disposed of in support of Fleet training exercise	[6]
USS Arthur W. Radford	DD-968	1977–2003	Disposed of as artificial reef on 10 August 2011 off coast of Delaware	[7]
USS Peterson	DD-969	1977–2002	Disposed of in support of Fleet training exercise	[8]
USS Caron	DD-970	1977–2001	Disposed of in support of Fleet training exercise	[9]
USS David R. Ray	DD-971	1977–2002	Disposed of in support of Fleet training exercise	[10]
USS Oldendorf	DD-972	1978–2003	Disposed of in support of Fleet training exercise	[11]
USS John Young	DD-973	1978–2002	Disposed of in support of Fleet training exercise	[12]
USS Comte de Grasse	DD-974	1978–1998	Disposed of in support of Fleet training exercise	[13]
USS O'Brien	DD-975	1977–2004	Disposed of in support of Fleet training exercise	[14]
USS Merrill	DD-976	1978–1998	Disposed of in support of Fleet training exercise	[15]
USS Briscoe	DD-977	1978–2003	Disposed of in support of Fleet training exercise	[16]
USS Stump	DD-978	1978–2004	Disposed of in support of Fleet training exercise	[17]
USS Conolly	DD-979	1978–1998	Museum ship in St. Louis, Missouri.	[18]
USS Moosbrugger	DD-980	1978–2000	Disposed of by scrapping, dismantling	[19]
USS John Hancock	DD-981	1978–2000	Disposed of by scrapping, dismantling	[20]
USS Nicholson	DD-982	1979–2002	Disposed of in support of Fleet training exercise	[21]
USS John Rodgers	DD-983	1979–1998	Disposed of by scrapping, dismantling	[22]
USS Leftwich	DD-984	1979–1998	Disposed of in support of Fleet training exercise	[23]
USS Cushing	DD-985	1979–2005	Disposed of in support of Fleet training exercise	[24]
USS Harry W. Hill	DD-986	1979–1998	Disposed of in support of Fleet training exercise	[25]
USS O'Bannon	DD-987	1979–2005	Disposed of in support of Fleet training exercise	[26]
USS Thorn	DD-988	1980–2004	Disposed of in support of Fleet training exercise	[27]
USS Deyo	DD-989	1980–2003	Disposed of in support of Fleet training exercise	[28]
USS Ingersoll	DD-990	1980–1998	Disposed of in support of Fleet training exercise	[29]
USS Fife	DD-991	1980–2003	Disposed of in support of Fleet training exercise	[30]
USS Fletcher	DD-992	1980–2004	Disposed of in support of Fleet training exercise	[31]
USS Hayler	DD-997	1983–2003	Disposed of in support of Fleet training exercise	[32]
Royal Australian Navy
HMAS New South Wales	D41	2002-Present	Active Service
HMAS Victoria	D42	2002-Present	Active Service
HMAS Queensland	D43	2002-Present	Active Service
HMAS Tasmania	D44	2002-Present	Active Service
Mexican Navy
ARM Tampico	DDG-103	2007-Present	Active Service
ARM Zumpango	DDG-104	2007-Present	Active Service
ARM Papaloapan	DDG-105	2008-Present	Active Service
ARM Yucatán	DDG-106	2008-Present	Active Service
ARM Constante	DDG-107	2008-Present	Active Service
ARM Veracruz	DDG-108	2009-Present	Active Service

See Also

Related Development

• Kidd/Ontario-class
• Ticonderoga-class

Comparable Vessels

• Admiral-class Destroyer