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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 ...
Production of Arleigh Burke class continued and it became the U.S. Navy's only operational class of destroyers after the USS Cushing, the last Spruance-class destroyer on active service, was decommissioned on 21 September 2005. [15] Cushing was unsuccessfully offered to the Pakistan Navy before being sunk as a target on 29 April 2009.
Cmdr. Douglas Robb, newly assumed commander of USS Spruance, was honored last week by a Concurrent Resolution of the Indiana Senate and House
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.
USS Frank E. Petersen ... This is a list of Arleigh Burke-class destroyers, serving the United States Navy, ... Spruance DDG 111 IIA [c] Bath Iron Works 14 May 2009 6 ...
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