USS Fitzgerald
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Destroyers have the same armor as they have always have. Pishta is partially right . The New DDG's have long rang capabilities with surface to air and surface to surface missals but the 5" 54 is for up close and personal but also can be a back up for air targets. Destroyers are still the back bone of the Navy There not called the Gray Hounds of the Pacific For nothing . Its amazing what kind of destruction these things can put down.
Heres some stats from old to new.
USS Henry B Wilson DDG7
Launched 1960
3,277 tons lite
Beam47'
length 437'
draft 15 '
Turbin Powered 2 boiler 70,000 HP
Speed 33knots
USS Fitzgerald DDG62
Launched 1994
6900 tons lite
length 505'
Beam 66'
draft 31'
Turbin powered 100,000 HP
speed30 knots
Then there is the weapons we had everything the fitz did except for the surface to surface and chain guns.
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Destroyers have the same armor as they have always have. Pishta is partially right . The New DDG's have long rang capabilities with surface to air and surface to surface missals but the 5" 54 is for up close and personal but also can be a back up for air targets. Destroyers are still the back bone of the Navy There not called the Gray Hounds of the Pacific For nothing . Its amazing what kind of destruction these things can put down.
Heres some stats from old to new.
USS Henry B Wilson DDG7
Launched 1960
3,277 tons lite
Beam47'
length 437'
draft 15 '
Turbin Powered 2 boiler 70,000 HP
Speed 33knots
USS Fitzgerald DDG62
Launched 1994
6900 tons lite
length 505'
Beam 66'
draft 31'
Turbin powered 100,000 HP
speed30 knots
Then there is the weapons we had everything the fitz did except for the surface to surface and chain guns.