USS Porter (DDG-78)

For other ships of the same name, see USS Porter.

USS Porter (DDG-78)
Career (US)
Name:	USS Porter
Namesake:	David Dixon Porter
Ordered:	20 July 1994
Builder:	Ingalls Shipbuilding, Pascagoula, Mississippi
Laid down:	2 December 1996
Launched:	12 November 1997
Acquired:	11 January 1999
Commissioned:	20 March 1999
Motto:	Freedom's Champion
Status:	in active service, as of 2011[update]
Badge:
General characteristics
Class and type:	Arleigh Burke class 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 and 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
Motto:	Freedom's Champion

USS Porter (DDG-78) is an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer in the United States Navy. Porter is named after Commodore David Porter, and his son, Admiral David Dixon Porter.

The Porter is one of only five (other than the USS Constitution) currently commissioned U.S. Navy ships to have sunk an enemy vessel with its own armament.^{[citation needed]}

Pirates

On 28 October 2007, Porter attacked and sank two pirate skiffs off Somalia after receiving a distress call from the tanker MV Golden Nori which was under attack from pirates.^[1] The ship has recently visited the Kenyan Port of Mombasa.^[2]

Upgrade

On November 12, 2009, the Missile Defense Agency announced that Porter would be upgraded during fiscal year 2013 to RIM-161 Standard Missile 3 (SM-3) capability in order to function as part of the Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense System.^[3]

Operation Nanook 2010

In August 2010 the Porter and the buoy tender USCGC Alder participated in Operation Nanook 2010 in Baffin Bay and the Davis Straits.^[4] This was the fourth annual Operation Nanook organized by the Canadian Government, but it was the first to host foreign vessels.

References

1. ^ "U.S. warship sinks two pirate skiffs". CNN. 2007-10-29. http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/africa/10/29/somalia.pirates/index.html. Retrieved 2007-10-31. 
2. ^ "US Navy in Kenya goodwill mission" by Nick Rankin, BBC News From Our Own Correspondent, 10 November 2007.
3. ^ "MDA announces next 6 BMD ships", Navy Times, 12 November 2009.
4. ^ "Canada Command - OP Nanook". Canadian Forces. 2010-08. http://www.canadacom.forces.gc.ca/daily/archive-nanook10-eng.asp?#050810. Retrieved 2010-09-22.  mirror

This article includes information collected from the Naval Vessel Register, which, as a U.S. government publication, is in the public domain.

External links

• Official ship's site
• Naval Vessel Register - DDG-78