USS Milius (DDG-69)

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USS Milius
Career USN Jack
Ordered: 8 April 1992
Laid down: 8 August 1994
Launched: 1 August 1995
Commissioned: 23 November 1996
Decommissioned:
Status: Active in service as of 2006.
Struck:
General Characteristics
Displacement: 8,315 tons
Length: 505 ft (153.9 m)
Beam: 66 ft (20.1 m)
Draught: 31 ft (9.4 m)
Propulsion: 4 × General Electric LM2500-30 gas turbines, 2 shafts, 100,000 shp (75 MW)
Speed: 30+ knots
Range:
Complement: 337 officers and enlisted
Armament: 1 x 29 cell, 1 x 61 cell Mk 41 vertical launch systems, 90 x RIM-67 SM-2, BGM-109 Tomahawk or RUM-139 VL-Asroc, missiles
1 x 5/54 in (127/54 mm), 2 x 25 mm, 4 x 12.7 mm guns, 2 x Phalanx CIWS
2 x Mk 46 triple torpedo tubes
Aircraft: 1 SH-60 Sea Hawk helicopter can be embarked
Motto: Alii Prae Me - "Others Before Myself"

USS Milius (DDG-69) is an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer in the United States Navy.

In January 2005, she participated in Operation Unified Assistance.

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This article includes information collected from the Naval Vessel Register, which, as a US government publication, is in the public domain.



Arleigh Burke-class destroyer
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