USS Wayne E. Meyer (DDG-108)
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| Name: | USS Wayne E. Meyer |
| Namesake: | Wayne E. Meyer |
| Awarded: | 9 September 2002 |
| Builder: | Bath Iron Works |
| Laid down: | 18 May 2007 |
| Launched: | 18 October 2008 |
| Status: | under construction |
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| Class and type: | Arleigh Burke-class destroyer |
| Displacement: | 9,200 tons |
| Length: | 509 ft 6 in (155.3 m) |
| Beam: | 66 ft (20 m) |
| Draft: | 31 ft (9.4 m) |
| Propulsion: | 4 × General Electric LM2500-30 gas turbines, 2 shafts, 100,000 shp (75 MW) |
| Speed: | 30+ knots (55+ km/h) |
| Complement: | 380 officers and enlisted |
| Armament: | 1 × 32 cell, 1 × 64 cell Mk 41 vertical launch systems, 96 × RIM-66 SM-2, BGM-109 Tomahawk or RUM-139 VL-Asroc, missiles 1 × 5/62 in (127/62 mm), 2 × 25 mm, 4 × 12.7 mm guns 2 × Mk 46 triple torpedo tubes |
| Aircraft carried: | 2 × SH-60 Sea Hawk helicopters |
The USS Wayne E. Meyer (DDG-108) will be an Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer in the United States Navy. She is named after Rear Admiral Wayne E. Meyer, who is known as the Father of Aegis.
Wayne E. Meyer will be the 85th destroyer in her class. She will carry the 100th AN/SPY-1 radar system to be delivered to the United States Navy. She is being built by Bath Iron Works, and is 66% complete.
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- This article includes information collected from the Naval Vessel Register, which, as a U.S. government publication, is in the public domain. The entry can be found here.
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