Description:Ship 1874
USS TRUXTUN is one of the Flight IIA ARLEIGH BURKE - class of Aegis guided missile destroyers and the sixth ship in the Navy named after Commodore Thomas Truxtun. General Characteristics: Awarded: September 13, 2002 Keel laid: April 11, 2005 Launched: April 17, 2007 Commissioned: April 25, 2009 Builder: Northrop Grumman Ship Systems' Ingalls Operations, Pascagoula, Miss. Propulsion system: four General Electric LM 2500 gas turbine engines Propellers: two Length: 508,5 feet (155 meters) Beam: 67 feet (20.4 meters) Draft: 30,5 feet (9.3 meters) Displacement: approx. 9,200 tons full load Speed: 32 knots Aircraft: two SH-60 (LAMPS 3) helicopters Armament: one Mk-45 5"/62 caliber lightweight gun, two Mk-41 VLS for Standard missiles and Tomahawk ASM/LAM, one 20mm Phalanx CIWS, two Mk-32 triple torpedo tubes for Mk-50 and Mk-46 torpedoes, two Mk 38 Mod 2 25mm machine gun systems Homeport: Norfolk, Va. Crew: approx. 320
