Missing imageUSSDonaldCookDDG-75.jpg USS Donald Cook |
| Career
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| Ordered:
| 19 January 1993
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| Laid down:
| 9 July 1996
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| Launched:
| 3 May 1997
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| Commissioned:
| 4 December 1998
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| Decommissioned:
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| Status:
| Active in service as of 2005.
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| Struck:
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| General Characteristics
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| Displacement:
| 8,315 tons
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| Length:
| 505 ft
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| Beam:
| 66 ft
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| Draught:
| 31 ft
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| Propulsion:
| 4 × General Electric LM2500-30 gas turbines, 2 shafts, 100,000 shp
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| Speed:
| 30+ knots
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| Range:
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| Complement:
| 337 officers and enlisted
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| 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
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| Aircraft:
| 1 SH-60 Sea Hawk helicopter can be embarked
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| Motto:
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USS Donald Cook (DDG-75) is an Arleigh Burke class destroyer in the United States Navy.
She was commissioned in 1998. Donald Cook was the subject of the book The Yard by Michael S. Saunders. She is named after Donald Cook, a Vietnam War Prisoner of War who died in captivity. Cook also fired the first Tomahawk missile during Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2003.
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