Kapal Penghancur AS USS John Paul Jones (DDG-53)

USS John Paul Jones (DDG-53) adalah kapal penghancur (destroyer) milik angkatan laut Amerika Serikat, ia adalah Arleigh Burke-class Guided Missile Destroye ketiga. USS John Paul Jones dibuat di Naval Base San Diego pada tanggal 8 Agustus 1990 dan diluncurkan pada 26 Oktober 1993.

Kapal ini pernah tampil di film Battleship (2012) berperang melawan kapal alien dan tenggelam.

Spesifikasi Umum

• Class & type: Arleigh Burke class destroyer
• Type: Destroyer
• Displacement: Light: approx. 6,800 long tons (6,900 t)
• Full: approx. 8,900 long tons (9,000 t)
• Length: 505 ft (154 m)
• Beam: 66 ft (20 m)
• Draft: 31 ft (9.4 m)
• Propulsion: 4 General Electric LM2500-30 gas turbines, two shafts, 100,000 total shaft horsepower (75 MW)
• Speed: >30 knots (56 km/h)
• Range: 4,400 nautical miles at 20 knots
• (8,100 km at 37 km/h)
• Complement: 33 Officers
• 38 Chief Petty Officers
• 210 Enlisted Personnel
• Sensors and
• processing systems:
• AN/SPY-1D 3D Radar
• AN/SPS-67(V)2 Surface Search Radar
• AN/SPS-73(V)12 Surface Search Radar
• AN/SQS-53C Sonar Array
• AN/SQR-19 Tactical Towed Array Sonar
• AN/SQQ-28 LAMPS III Shipboard System
• Electronic warfare
• & decoys:
• AN/SLQ-32(V)2 Electronic Warfare System
• AN/SLQ-25 Nixie Torpedo Countermeasures
• MK 36 MOD 12 Decoy Launching System
• AN/SLQ-39 CHAFF Buoys
• Armament:
• 1 × 29 cell, 1 × 61 cell Mk 41 vertical launch systems with 90 × RIM-156 SM-2, BGM-109 Tomahawk or RUM-139 VL-Asroc missiles
• 1 × Mark 45 5/54 in (127/54 mm)
• 2 × 25 mm chain gun
• 4 × .50 caliber (12.7 mm) guns
• 2 × 20 mm Phalanx CIWS
• 2 × Mk 32 triple torpedo tubes
• Aircraft carried: 1 SH-60 Sea Hawk helicopter can be embarked

Editor: Agus Setiawan
Referensi: en.wikipedia.org