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4× .50 cal (12.7 mm) guns (2 aft, 2 forward) Evolved SeaRAM 11 cell missile launcher. Mission modules. Aircraft carried. 2× MH-60R/S Seahawks. USS Oakland (LCS-24) is an Independence -class littoral combat ship of the United States Navy. [4] She is the third ship to be named for the City of Oakland, California. [6] [7]
She was launched on 2 July 1957, sponsored by Mrs. John A. Moore, widow of the last commanding officer of the previous USS Grayback (SS-208), and commissioned at Mare Island on 7 March 1958. Grayback was initially designated as an attack submarine, but was converted in 1958 into a guided-missile submarine (SSG-574) armed with the Regulus ...
Service history. USS O'Kane, a Baseline 5.3 Flight II Arleigh Burke -class guided missile destroyer, is the 27th destroyer of the class and the sixteenth built by Bath Iron Works. O’Kane is the second ship to be commissioned in her home port of Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. She was laid down on 8 May 1997 at Bath Iron Works in Bath, Maine, launched ...
SLNS Vijayabahu (P627) ( Sinhala: විජයබාහු, romanized: Vijayabāhu) is an Advanced Offshore Patrol Vessel of the Sri Lanka Navy. The ship is named after King Vijayabahu I, the warrior king of the medieval Sri Lanka who founded the Kingdom of Polonnaruwa . Formerly, USCGC Douglas Munro (WHEC-724) and USCGC Munro (WHEC-724), a ...
USS. Scranton. (SSN-756) USS Scranton departing Souda Bay off of the Greek island of Crete. USS Scranton (SSN-756), a Los Angeles -class submarine, is the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for Scranton, Pennsylvania . The contract to build her was awarded to Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company in Newport News, Virginia ...
USS Shoup. USS. Shoup. USS Shoup (DDG-86) is an Arleigh Burke -class destroyer in the United States Navy. The ship is named for Medal of Honor recipient General David M. Shoup, the 22nd Commandant of the Marine Corps . Construction, on the 36th destroyer of her class, began at the Northrop Grumman Ship Systems' Ingalls Operations on 10 November ...
Mark 54 lightweight torpedo. Aircraft carried. 1 × Sikorsky MH-60R. The USS Mitscher (DDG-57) is an Arleigh Burke class in service with the United States Navy. It was constructed by Ingalls Shipbuilding, in Pascagoula, Mississippi on an order in December 1988. Laid down in 1992 it was formally commissioned on 10 December 1994.
USS Minnesota (SSN-783) is a nuclear powered fast attack submarine, the 10th of the Virginia -class. She is the third United States Navy vessel to bear the name and the second of two named for the state, while the other was named for the Minnesota River . Minnesota was laid down on 20 May 2011, and christened on 27 October 2012 in a ceremony ...