USS Kidd on 18 May 2011
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History | |
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United States | |
Name | Kidd |
Namesake | Rear Admiral Isaac C. Kidd |
Ordered | 6 March 1998 |
Builder | Ingalls Shipbuilding |
Laid down | 29 April 2004 |
Launched | 22 January 2005 |
Commissioned | 9 June 2007 |
Homeport | Everett |
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Motto | On To Victory |
Status | in active service |
Badge | |
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 |
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Aircraft carried | 2 × MH-60R Seahawk helicopters |
USS Kidd (DDG-100) is an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer in the United States Navy. She is the third Navy ship named after Rear Admiral Isaac C. Kidd, who was on board Arizona during the attack on Pearl Harbor, and was the first American flag officer to die in World War II. The ship is part of Destroyer Squadron 1 of Carrier Strike Group 1[1] which is currently headed by the Nimitz-class nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70).