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USS Carney (DDG-64) - Definition and Overview

USS Carney in the .
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USS Carney in the Persian Gulf.
Career USN Jack
Ordered: 16 January 1991
Laid down: 3 August 1993
Launched: 23 July 1994
Commissioned: 13 April 1996
Decommissioned:
Status: Active in service as of 2005.
Struck:
General Characteristics
Displacement: 8,315 tons
Length: 505 ft
Beam: 66 ft
Draught: 31 ft
Propulsion: 4 × General Electric LM2500-30 gas turbines, 2 shafts, 100,000 shp
Speed: 30+ knots
Range:
Complement: 337 officers and enlisted
Armament: 1 x 29 cell, 1 x 61 cell Mk 41 vertical launch systems, 90 x RIM-67 SM-2, BGM-109 Tomahawk or RUM-139 VL-Asroc, missiles
1 x 5 in, 2 x 25 mm, 4 x 12.7 mm guns, 2 x Phalanx CIWS
2 x Mk 46 triple torpedo tubes
Aircraft: 1 SH-60 Sea Hawk helicopter can be embarked
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USS Carney (DDG-64) is an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer in the United States Navy. It is the platform for one of the Navy's most advanced radar arrays, which are worth more than the ship itself.

This article includes information collected from the Naval Vessel Register.

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