USS Dewey (DDG-105)

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USS Dewey on 24 September 2014
History
United States
Name	Dewey
Namesake	George Dewey
Ordered	13 September 2002
Builder	Ingalls Shipbuilding
Laid down	4 October 2006
Launched	26 January 2008
Commissioned	6 March 2010
Homeport	Yokosuka
Identification	MMSI number: 382933000 Hull number: DDG-105
Motto	Dynamis Ex Cardias (The Will to Fight from the Heart)[1]
Honors and awards	See Awards
Status	in active service
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General characteristics
Class and type	Arleigh Burke-class destroyer
Displacement	9,200 tons
Length	509 ft 6 in (155.30 m)
Beam	66 ft (20 m)
Draft	31 ft (9.4 m)
Propulsion	4 × General Electric LM2500-30 gas turbines, 2 shafts, 100,000 shp (75 MW)
Speed	30+ knots (55+ km/h)
Complement	380 officers and enlisted
Armament	Guns: 1 × 5-inch (127 mm)/62 mk 45 mod 4 (lightweight gun) 1 × 20 mm (0.8 in) Phalanx CIWS 2 × 25 mm (0.98 in) Mk 38 machine gun system 4 × 0.50 inches (12.7 mm) caliber guns Lasers: Optical Dazzling Interdictor, Navy (ODIN) Missiles: 1 × 32-cell, 1 × 64-cell (96 total cells) Mk 41 vertical launching system (VLS): RIM-66M surface-to-air missile RIM-156 surface-to-air missile RIM-174A standard ERAM RIM-161 anti-ballistic missile RIM-162 ESSM (quad-packed) BGM-109 Tomahawk cruise missile RUM-139 vertical launch ASROC Torpedoes: 2 × Mark 32 triple torpedo tubes: Mark 46 lightweight torpedo Mark 50 lightweight torpedo Mark 54 lightweight torpedo
Aircraft carried	2 × MH-60R Seahawk helicopters

USS Dewey (DDG-105) is an Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer in the United States Navy. Dewey is the third Navy ship named after Admiral of the Navy George Dewey, hero of the Battle of Manila Bay during the Spanish–American War.^[2]

The ship is part of Destroyer Squadron 1 of Carrier Strike Group One of which the flagship is aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson.^{[citation needed]}