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USS Spruance (DDG-111) is a United States Navy Arleigh Burke-class destroyer.She is the 61st ship in her class. Spruance is the second ship to be named for Admiral Raymond A. Spruance (1886–1969), who commanded American naval forces at the Battles of Midway and the Philippine Sea.
The destroyers USS Stockdale and USS Spruance came under fire as they were transiting the Bab al-Mandab Strait, a strategic maritime choke point between the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden.
USS Arleigh Burke (DDG-51) This is a list of destroyers of the United States Navy, sorted by hull number.It includes all of the series DD, DL, DDG, DLG, and DLGN. CG-47 Ticonderoga and CG-48 Yorktown were approved as destroyers (DDG-47 and DDG-48) and redesignated cruisers before being laid down; it is uncertain whether CG-49 Vincennes and CG-50 Valley Forge were ever authorized as destroyers ...
Six Spruance-class destroyers fitting out, c. May 1975. One additional ship, USS Hayler, was ordered on 29 September 1979. Hayler was originally planned as a DDH (Destroyer, Helicopter) design, which would carry more anti-submarine helicopters than the standard design of the Spruance class. Eventually this plan to build a DDH was scrapped and a ...
Cmdr. Douglas Robb, newly assumed commander of USS Spruance, was honored last week by a Concurrent Resolution of the Indiana Senate and House
Two ships of the United States Navy have been named USS Spruance, in honor of Admiral Raymond A. Spruance (1886–1969): USS Spruance (DD-963) was the lead ship of Spruance-class destroyers, launched in 1973 and struck in 2005; USS Spruance (DDG-111) is an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer, launched in 2010 and commissioned in 2011
USS Kidd (DDG 100) near Naval Base San Diego with front ODIN system. As of 2023, six destroyers (DDG 100, DDG 104, DDG 105, DDG 106, DDG 111, DDG 113) are equipped with the Optical Dazzling Interdictor, Navy (ODIN), a directed energy weapon that can target unmanned vehicles.
Michael Tate Westbrook is an officer in the United States Navy who served as commanding officer of the USS Spruance from May 2010 to May 2012. Prior to this, he served in the Pentagon on the Naval Operations Staff's Programming Division from fall 2007 through June 2009.