| Article number: | 10.11.075 |
A comprehensive, concise and technically accurate overview.
| Characteristic | Information |
|---|---|
| Name: | USS Spruance |
| Hull number: | DD-963 |
| Type: | Destroyer |
| Class: | Spruance class (lead ship) |
| Shipyard: | Ingalls Shipbuilding, Pascagoula, Mississippi |
| Keel laid: | 25 November 1972 |
| Launched: | 10 November 1973 |
| Commissioned: | 20 September 1975 |
| Decommissioned: | 23 March 2005 |
| Final destination: | Sunk as a target ship (SINKEX), 2006 |
| Characteristic | Value |
|---|---|
| Displacement: | approx. 8,040 tonnes (fully loaded) |
| Length: | 172.4 m (563 ft) |
| Beam: | 16.8 m (55 ft) |
| Draught: | 9.8 m (32 ft) |
| Propulsion: | 4 × General Electric LM2500 gas turbines (COGAG system), 80,000 hp total, 2 propellers |
| Speed: | 32+ knots |
| Range: | ±6,000 nautical miles at 20 knots |
| Crew: | ±330 (24 officers, 306 seamen) |
| System | Function |
|---|---|
| 2 × Mk 45 5"/54 (127 mm) guns | Surface and coastal bombardment, anti-aircraft |
| 1 × Mk 41 VLS (from the 1990s) | For Tomahawk & ASROC missiles |
| 2 × Mk 141 launchers | Harpoon anti-ship missiles |
| 1 × Mk 15 Phalanx CIWS | Close-In Weapon System |
| 2 × triple torpedo tubes | Mk 46/50 torpedoes (anti-submarine) |
| Air assets: | 2 × SH-60 Seahawk helicopters (LAMPS III system) |
| Radar: | AN/SPS-40 air search radar, AN/SPS-55 surface sensor, Mk 86 fire control system |
| Sonar: | AN/SQS-53 bow sonar + AN/SQR-19 towed array (TACTAS) |
| Electronic warfare: | SLQ-32 suite, chaff/decoy systems |
The USS Spruance was the first of 31 Spruance-class destroyers — the first large combat ships in the US Navy to be powered entirely by gas turbines.
Designed as an anti-submarine warfare (ASW) platform, but later expanded into a versatile destroyer with missile capability.
Served in the Atlantic Ocean, the Caribbean, the Mediterranean and the Persian Gulf, often as an escort vessel for aircraft carriers and amphibious groups.
Took part in Operation Desert Storm (1991) and various NATO exercises.
Was modernised in the 1990s with a Vertical Launch System (VLS) for Tomahawk cruise missiles.
After 30 years of service, she was decommissioned in 2005 and scuttled in 2006 as a target ship during an exercise.
The class served as the basic design for the later Kidd-class destroyers and the Ticonderoga-class cruisers (CG-47).
The ships were known for their reliable propulsion, quiet running, and modular construction — revolutionary in the 1970s.
Eventually replaced by the more modern Arleigh Burke (DDG-51) destroyers.
Named after Admiral Raymond A. Spruance, commander of the US Fifth Fleet at the Battle of Midway (1942).
The name Spruance was later reused for a destroyer base ship, but not for a new vessel.
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Drawing number |
10.11.075 |
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Definition |
Destroyer USS "Spruance" DD963 |
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Quality |
bandages; side view; deck plan; details; assembly instructions; drawing contains Chinese text |
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Scale |
1:250 |
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2 |
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Total drawing sheets |
2 |
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Weight in grams |
65 |
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Details |
Length 68 cm |
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Comments |
Artek 0019 |