USS Russell (DDG-59)
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| USS Russell off the coast of Hawaii. | |
| Career (US) | Image:Naval Jack of the United States.svg
<tr valign=top><td>Ordered:</td><td>22 February 1990</td></tr> |
|---|---|
| Laid down: | 24 July 1992 |
| Launched: | 20 October 1993
<tr valign=top><td>Commissioned:</td><td>20 May 1995</td></tr> |
| Status: | Active in service as of 2006.
<tr valign=top><td>Homeport:</td><td>Pearl Harbor, Hawaii</td></tr> |
| General Characteristics | |
| Displacement: | Light: approx. 6,794.38 tons Full: approx. 8,885.66 tons |
| Length: | 505 ft (153.9 m) |
| Beam: | 66 ft (20.1 m)
<tr valign=top><td>Draught:</td><td>31 ft (9.4 m)</td></tr><tr valign=top><td>Propulsion:</td><td>4 General Electric LM2500-30 gas turbines, two shafts, 100,000 total shaft horsepower (75 MW)</td></tr> |
| Speed: | 30+ knots (56+ km/h)
<tr valign=top><td>Range:</td><td>4,400 nautical miles at 20 knots |
| Complement: | 23 officers, 300 enlisted
<tr valign=top><td>Armament:</td><td>1 × 32 cell, 1 × 64 cell Mk 41 vertical launch systems with 90 × RIM-67 SM-2, BGM-109 Tomahawk or RUM-139 VL-Asroc missiles |
USS Russell (DDG-59) is an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer in the United States Navy.
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| Arleigh Burke-class destroyer |
| Flight I ships: Arleigh Burke | Barry | John Paul Jones | Curtis Wilbur | Stout | John S. McCain | Mitscher | Laboon | Russell | Paul Hamilton | Ramage | Fitzgerald | Stethem | Carney | Benfold | Gonzalez | Cole | The Sullivans | Milius | Hopper | Ross |
| Flight II ships: Mahan | Decatur | McFaul | Donald Cook | Higgins | O'Kane | Porter |
| Flight IIA ships: 5"/54 variant: Oscar Austin | Roosevelt | 5"/62 variant: Winston S. Churchill | Lassen | Howard | Bulkeley | McCampbell | Shoup | Mason | Preble | Mustin | Chafee | Pinckney | Momsen | Chung-Hoon | Nitze | James E. Williams | Bainbridge | Halsey | Forrest Sherman | Farragut | Kidd | Gridley | Sampson | Truxtun | Sterett | Dewey | Stockdale | Gravely | Wayne E. Meyer |
| List of destroyers of the United States Navy List of destroyer classes of the United States Navy |
