Fact Sheet
DDG 51 Arleigh Burke Class Destroyers
Builder: Bath Iron Works & Huntington Ingalls Industries
Speed: 30+ knots
Dimensions:
- Length: Flights I and II (DDG 51-78): 505 feet (153.92 meters)
Flight IIA and III (DDG 79 AF): 509½ feet (155.29 meters)
- Beam: 59 feet (18 meters)
Propulsion: Four General Electric LM 2500-30 gas turbines and two shafts creating 100,000 total shaft horsepower
Crew: ~314
Armament:
- Flight I & II (DDG 51-78)
- Standard Missile family
- Vertical Launch ASROC (VLA) Missiles
- Tomahawk Weapon System (TWS)
- Six MK-46 Torpedoes (from two triple tube mounts)
- Close In Weapon System (CIWS)
- Evolved Sea Sparrow Missile (ESSM)
- Flight IIA (DDG 79-124 and 127) additional armament
- Five-inch MK-45 Gun
- Two LAMPS MK III MH-60 B/R Helicopters
- MK 46/MK 50 Torpedoes
- Flight III (DDG 125 and 126, 128 and follow) additional armament