USS Richard G. Lugar (DDG-136) is a planned Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer of the United States Navy, the 86th overall for the class.[1] She will be named in honor of Richard G. Lugar, a Republican United States Senator who represented Indiana. He served in the United States Navy from 1957 to 1960 and achieved the rank of Lieutenant Junior Grade.[3] She was officially named by Secretary of the Navy Richard V. Spencer during a ceremony 18 November 2019 at the Indiana War Memorial in Indianapolis.[4]
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Name | Richard G. Lugar |
Namesake | Richard Lugar |
Awarded | 27 September 2018[1] |
Builder | Bath Iron Works |
Identification | Hull number: DDG-136 |
Status | Authorized |
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Class and type | Arleigh Burke-class destroyer |
Displacement | 9,217 tons (full load)[2] |
Length | 510 ft (160 m)[2] |
Beam | 66 ft (20 m)[2] |
Propulsion | 4 × General Electric LM2500 gas turbines 100,000 shp (75,000 kW)[2] |
Speed | 31 knots (57 km/h; 36 mph)[2] |
Complement | 380 officers and enlisted |
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Armor | Kevlar-type armor with steel hull. Numerous passive survivability measures. |
Aircraft carried | 2 × MH-60R Seahawk helicopters |
Aviation facilities | Double hangar and helipad |
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