Surface Warfare
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- Mission
- To provide combat ready ships to the fleet; and to supply thsoe ships and supporting commands with the leadership, manpower, equipment, training, and material needed to achieve operational excellence and conduct prompt, sustained combat operations at sea to ensure victory.
- Operations (List)
- Maritime Interdiction, Naval Surface Fire Support, Anti Submarine Warfare, Anti Air Warfare, Anti Surface Warfare, Strike Warfare, Theatre Air and Missile Defense, Command and Control Warfare
- Maritime Interdiction Operations
- units are utilized to board, inspest, and seize vessels suspected
- Naval Surface Fire Support
- support of ground forces ashore, emplys the Mk 45 54caliber or 62 caliber gun
- Anti-Submarine Warfare
- layered defense, bow mounted sonar, Mk 46/50 torpedos, SH-60B, and VLA
- Anti Air Warfare
- relies also on layered defense, uses powerful detection and tracking systems (AEGIS) and SPY-1D radar
- Anti Surface Warfare
- to achieve sea control/denial, long range warning needed, harpoon
- Command and Control Warfare
- constant, secure, realtime communication with leadership in the US. gathering, processing, and disseminating information, supported by intelligence.
- Strike Warfare
- Tomahawk missile, great distances with accuracy
- Theatre Air and Missile Defense
- use of radar system and long ranged Standard Missiles, to defend friendly forces against threat of missile use
- Capabilities
- Stealth, Endurance, Firepower, Mobility, Communication
- Stealth
- difficult to aquire on radar, e.g. DDG
- Endurance
- either gas or steam, 6000 nautical miles at 20 knots, and can refuel at sea
- Firepower
- gun mounts, cruise missiles, surface to air missiles, self defense, and surface to surface missiles
- Mobility
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ability to have control over a situation any in the world
NOTE: most of world's population lives near coast - Communication
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data transmission via LINK 4A, LINK 11, and LINK 16
voice transmission via Satellite COMMS, HF, UHF, EHF - Current Projects
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DDX, CGX, LCS
X=experiment
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CG-47 TICONDEROGA Class Guided Missile Cruiser
DDG-51 ARLEIGH BURKE Class Guidded Missile Destroyer
FFG-7 OLIVER HAZARD PERRY Frigate
CVN-68 Nimitz Class Aircraft Carrier - TICONDEROGA (Visually Identify)
- divided superstructure, two masts, 5 in 53 caliber gun forward and aft
- ARLEIGH BURKE (Visually Identify)
- single gun forward, single superstructure,
- OLIVER HAZARD PERRY (Visual Identification)
- Hurricanebow, box like superstructure, single mast
- Mission of CG-47
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Primary: Anti-Air
Secondary: Strike - Mission of DDG-51
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Primary: Anti-Air
Secondary: Strike/Anti-Surface - Mission of FFG-7
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Primary: Anti-Submarine
Secondary: Anti-Surface - Speed
- All 30+ knots except FFG, which is 29+ knots
- Weapons they all platforms have in common:
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2 Mk-32 NATO torpedo tubes
Mk-16 20mm Phalanx - Location of Phalanx on TICONDEROGA
- port and starboard
- Location of Phalanx on ARLEIGH BURKE
- fwd and aft
- Location of Phalanx on OLIVER HAZARD PERRY
- aft
- Weapons that TICONDEROGA and ARLEIGH BURKE have in common
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Mk-45 5in 54 guns
Mk-41 VLS
Mk-141 quadruple Harpoon Canisters - Extra Weapons on TICONDEROGA
- Mk-26 dual rail launchers
- Extra Weapons on OLIVER HAZARD PERRY
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Mk-13 single rail lancher
Mk-75 76mm gun - Power of all except Carrier
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4 GE LM-2500 gas turbine engines
(FFG has 2) - Length/Beam of Carrier
- 1092' and 134'
- Mission Spec Cap (TICONDEROGA)
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SPY-1D Air Search Radar
Mk-7 AEGIS combat system - Mission Spec Cap (ARLEIGH BURKE)
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SPY-1D Air Search Radar
Mk-7 AEGIS Combat System - Mission Spec Cap (OLIVER HAZARD PERRY)
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SQS-56 sonar
SQR-19 TACTAS - Power of Nimitz Class Carrier
- 2 Nuclear Power Plants
- Armament of Carrier
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4 Sea Sparrow Launchers
3 Phalanx 20 mm mounts (3 in later models)