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 USS Porter (DDG-78) - Definition 

USS Porter undergoing sea trials.
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USS Porter undergoing sea trials.
Career USN Jack
Ordered: 20 July 1994
Laid down: 2 December 1996
Launched: 12 November 1997
Commissioned: 20 March 1999
Decommissioned:
Status: Active in service as of 2005.
Struck:
General Characteristics
Displacement: 8,400 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 Porter (DDG-78) is an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer in the United States Navy. Porter is named after Admiral David Porter, and his son, Admiral David Dixon Porter.

For other vessels named Porter, see USS Porter.

This article includes information collected from the Naval Vessel Register.


Arleigh Burke-class destroyer
Flight I ships: Arleigh Burke | Barry | John Paul Jones | Curtis Wilbur | Stout | John S. McCain | Mitscher | Laboon | Russell | Paul Hamilton | Ramage | Fitzgerald | Stethem | Carney | Benfold | Gonzalez | Cole | The Sullivans | Milius | Hopper | Ross
Flight II ships: Mahan | Decatur | McFaul | Donald Cook | Higgins | O'Kane | Porter
Flight IIA ships: 5"/54 variant: Oscar Austin | Roosevelt | 5"/62 variant: Winston S. Churchill | Lassen | Howard | Bulkeley | McCampbell | Shoup | Mason | Preble | Mustin | Chafee | Pinckney | Momsen | Chung-Hoon | Nitze | James E. Williams | Bainbridge | Halsey | Forrest Sherman | Farragut | Kidd | Gridley | Sampson | Truxtun | Sterett | Dewey

List of destroyers of the United States Navy
List of destroyer classes of the United States Navy
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