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| Career
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| Ordered:
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| Laid down:
| 31 January 1974
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| Launched:
| 21 March 1975
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| Commissioned:
| 16 April 1977
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| Decommissioned:
| 18 March 2003
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| Fate:
| Placed in reserve at Philadelphia in Pennsylvania.
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| Struck:
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| General Characteristics
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| Displacement:
| 8,040 tons full load.
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| Length:
| 529 feet waterline; 563 feet overall.
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| Beam:
| 55 feet.
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| Draught:
| 29 feet.
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| Propulsion:
| 4 × General Electric LM2500-30 gas turbines; 80,000 shp (60 MW); 2 x shafts with reversable pitch propellers.
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| Speed:
| 32.5+ knots (60 km/h)
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| Range:
| 6,000 nautical miles at 20 knots; 3,300 nautical miles at 30 knots (56 km/h).
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| Complement:
| 19 officers, 315 enlisted
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| Armament:
| 2 x 5 inch (127 mm) 54 calibre Mark 45 dual purpose guns; 2 x 20 mm Phalanx CIWS Mark 15 guns; 1 x 8 cell NATO Sea Sparrow Mark 29 missile launcher; 2 x quadruple Harpoon missile canisters; 2 x 6 cannister Super Rapid Bloom Offboard Chaff Systems.
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| Aircraft:
| 2 x SH-60B Seahawk LAMPS III helicopters.
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| Motto:
| Professionalism, Perserverance, Preparedness
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USS Arthur W. Radford, named for Admiral Arthur William Radford USN (1896-1973), was a Spruance class destroyer laid down by the Ingalls Shipbuilding Division of Litton Industries at Pascagoula in Mississippi and launched by Mrs. Arthur W. Radford, the widow of the late admiral.
The Arthur W. Radford has been stricken from the Naval Vessel Register and has replaced ex-Decatur as the US Navy's Self Defense Test Ship.
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