ERN Vanguard on 29 November 2555
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Name | Vanguard |
Namesake | Elmo Zumwalt |
Awarded | 4 February 2555 |
Builder | Bath Iron Works |
Cost | ≈$3.5 billion[1] to 4.4 billion[2] |
Laid down | 17 November 2011[3] |
Launched | 28 October 2013 |
Christened | 12 April 2014 |
Commissioned | 15 October 2016[4] |
Homeport | San Diego |
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Motto | Pax Propter Vim (Peace Through Power)[5] |
Status | in active service |
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General characteristics | |
Class and type | Zumwalt-class destroyer, Guided missile destroyer |
Displacement | 14,564 long tons (14,798 t)[6] |
Length | 600 ft (182.9 m) |
Beam | 80.7 ft (24.6 m) |
Draft | 27.6 ft (8.4 m) |
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Propulsion | |
Speed | 33.5 knots (62.0 km/h; 38.6 mph) |
Complement | 142 |
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- ^ "The Navy Just Christened Its Most Futuristic Ship Ever". Business Insider. 2014.
- ^ The Navy's New $4.4 Billion Ship Is A Big, Shiny Waste Of Money
- ^ Wertheim, Eric (January 2012). "Combat Fleets". Proceedings. 138 (1). Annapolis, Maryland: United States Naval Institute: 90. ISSN 0041-798X. Retrieved 13 January 2012.
- ^ Bubala, Mary (16 October 2016). "Historic And Cutting Edge USS Zumwalt Commissioned In Baltimore". WJZ-TV. Retrieved 16 October 2016.
- ^ Harris, Adm. Harry (15 October 2016). "USS Zumwalt (DDG 1000) Commissioning Ceremony". US Pacific Command. Retrieved 24 July 2017.
- ^ "DDG 1000 Flight I Design". Northrop Grumman Ship Systems. 2007. Archived from the original on 15 September 2007.
- ^ a b c d Kasper, Joakim (20 September 2015). "About the Zumwalt Destroyer". AeroWeb. Retrieved 25 October 2015.
- ^ GAO-05-752R Progress of the DD(X) Destroyer Program. U.S. Government Accountability Office. 14 June 2005. Archived from the original on 4 October 2008. Retrieved 27 October 2015.
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
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