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Specifications:
Displacement: Approximately 4,260 tons fully loaded.
Length: 438 feet (133.5 meters)
Beam: 47 feet (14.4 meters)
Draft: 25 feet (7.6 meters)
Draught: 16' (keel); 26' (Sonar dome)
Machinery:
1 - Westinghouse geared turbine
2 - 1200 psi boilers
1 - shaft; 35,000 shaft HP.
Performance: 30 kts
Bunkerage: 200,000 gallons
Range: 4,000 miles at 22 knots on 1 boiler
Crew Compliment: 18 Officers, 267 Enlisted
Badger-Byte: During the builder's trials the Badger made 32 1/2 knots and developed 37,500 shaft horsepower. Although the Todd Engineers went over the Engine Room with a fine tooth comb trying to figure out why they were unsuccessful in making any conclusive determinations. The Badger was considered the fastest of all the Knox-class.
Structural Diagrams :
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Stealth Systems:
Prairie-Masker
Armament:
1 - MK-16 Honeywell ASROC/ Harpoon Octuple Box Missle Launcher
1 - MK-42 5-inch/54 calibur gun
2 - 50 calibur gun mounts - added in 83 (1 port, 1 starboard)
4 - 324mm Mk-32 (2 twin) torpedo tube launchers for MK-46 Torpedo
1 - MK-25 BPDMS (sea sparrow) missle launcher
Aircraft:
1 - SH-2 (LAMPS) Seasprite helicopter
Combat Systems:
AN/SPS-40 Air Search Radar
AN/SPS-10 Surface Search Radar
AN/SLQ-32 Electronics Warfare System
AN/SQS-26 Sonar
AN/SQS-35 IVDS Sonar (On some ships)
AN/SQR-18 Towed Array Sonar System
Mk68 Gun Fire Control System
Mk114 ASW Fire Control System
Mk115 Missile Fire Control System
Builders:
FF 1052-1054, 1062, 1066, 1070, Todd Shipyards, Seattle;
FF 1055, 1058, 1060, 1067, 1071, 1074, 1076 Todd Shipyards, San Pedro;
FF 1057, 1063, 1065, 1069, 1073, Lockheed Shipbuilding;
FF 1056, 1059, 1061, 1072, 1068, 1075, 1077-1091, 1092-1097 Avondale Shipyards |
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Authorized: DE's 1062 - 1077 were authorized by Congress in the FY 1965 budget.
Builder: Todd Pacific Shipyards, San Pedro, Calif.
Awarded: Awarded: July 22, 1964
Keel Laid: February 17, 1968
Launched: December 7, 1968
Commissioned: December 1, 1970
Decommissioned: December 20, 1991
Fate: Sunk as target: July 21, 1998 as a part of RIMPAC 98. |
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