Wichita-class replenishment oiler

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USS Kalamazoo on 1 April 1991
Class overview
Name	Wichita
Builders	General Dynamics, Quincy National Steel, San Diego
Operators	United States Navy
Preceded by	Neosho class Sacramento class Ashtabula class
Succeeded by	Supply class Cimarron class
In commission	1969–1995
Planned	7
Completed	7
Retired	7
General characteristics
Type	replenishment oiler
Displacement	13,533 tons empty, 40,151 tons full 26,618 dwt
Length	640 ft (195 m) wl; 659 ft (201 m) oa
Beam	96 ft (29 m)
Draft	35 ft (10.6 m)
Propulsion	3 × boilers, 2 × steam turbines, 2 × shafts, 32,000 SHP (24 MW)
Speed	25 knots
Complement	34 officers, 463 men
Armament	(As built) 2 × twin 3 in (76 mm) AA guns; (as decommissioned) 1 × NATO Sea Sparrow missile system, 2 × Phalanx CIWS
Aircraft carried	2 × UH-46 Sea Knight helicopters

Wichita-class replenishment oilers comprised a class of seven replenishment oilers used by the United States Navy from the late 1960s to the mid-1990s. The ships were designed for rapid underway replenishment using both connected replenishment and vertical replenishment.