USS Defender (MCM-2) in port Pearl Harbor Hawaii, 2004. |
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| Name: | USS Defender (MCM-2) |
| Laid down: | December 1, 1983 |
| Launched: | April 4, 1987 |
| Commissioned: | September 30, 1989 |
| Status: | in active service as of 2010 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Avenger-class mine countermeasures ship |
| Displacement: | 1,253 tons (light) 1,367 tons (full load) |
| Length: | 224 ft (68 m) |
| Beam: | 39 ft (12 m) |
| Draft: | 15 ft (4.6 m) |
| Propulsion: | four Waukasha Motors Co. diesel engines, two controllable reversible pitch propellers, two rudders, two electric light load propulsion motors |
| Speed: | 13.5 knots (25.0 km/h) |
| Complement: | 7 officers, 75 enlisted |
| Sensors and processing systems: |
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| Electronic warfare and decoys: |
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| Armament: | six M2HB .50 cal. machine guns, four M240B 7.62mm machine guns, two Mk 19 grenade launchers |
USS Defender (MCM-2) is an Avenger-class mine countermeasures ship in the service of the United States Navy.
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She was laid down on December 1, 1983 at Marinette Marine Corp., Marinette, Wisconsin; launched on April 4, 1987; and commissioned on September 30, 1989. As of July 1, 2009, she is active in, Mine Countermeasures Squadron Two, U.S. Pacific Fleet, permanently forward deployed to Sasebo, Japan.
Auxiliary systems: three Waukesha ship service diesel generator sets, one solar gas turbine generator, one omnithruster bow thruster system.
Electronic systems: one AN/SSN-2 Precise Integrated Navigation System (PINS), one AN/SQQ-32 Mine Hunting Sonar, one AN/SPS-55 Surface Radar, one AN/WSN-2 Gyro compass, Mine Countermeasure Equipment Suite, one AN/SLQ-48 (V) Mine Neutralization System, one AN/SQL-37 (V) 3 Magnetic/Acoustic Influence Minesweeping Gear, Oropesa type 0 size 1 Mechanical Sweep Equipment, MDG 1701 Marconi Magnetometer Degaussing System.
For a review of current year-to-year operations of USS Defender), including operations after Hurricane Katrina, see:
This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships.
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