Belknap 1968
Sterett 1969
Belknap 1979
Josephus Daniels 1990
Belknap 1990
| No | Name | Yard No | Builder | Laid down | Launched | Comm | Fate |
| DLG26, 6.1975- CG26 | Belknap | 342 | Bath Iron Wks | 5.2.1962 | 20.7.1963 | 7.11.1964 | stricken 2.1995 |
| DLG27, 6.1975- CG27 | Josephus Daniels | 343 | Bath Iron Wks | 23.4.1962 | 2.12.1963 | 8.5.1965 | stricken 1.1994 |
| DLG28, 6.1975- CG28 | Wainwright | 344 | Bath Iron Wks | 2.7.1962 | 25.4.1964 | 8.1.1966 | stricken 11.1993 |
| DLG29, 6.1975- CG29 | Jouett | Puget Sound N Yd, Bremerton | 25.9.1962 | 30.6.1964 | 3.12.1966 | stricken 1.1994 | |
| DLG30, 6.1975- CG30 | Horne | Mare Island N Yd, San Francisco | 12.12.1962 | 30.10.1964 | 15.4.1967 | stricken 2.1994 | |
| DLG31, 6.1975- CG31 | Sterett | Puget Sound N Yd, Bremerton | 25.9.1962 | 30.6.1965 | 8.4.1967 | stricken 3.1994 | |
| DLG32, 6.1975- CG32 | William H. Standley | 346 | Bath Iron Wks | 29.7.1963 | 19.12.1964 | 9.7.1966 | stricken 3.1994 |
| DLG33, 6.1975- CG33 | Fox | 80 | Todd, San Pedro | 15.1.1963 | 21.11.1964 | 28.5.1966 | stricken 4.1994 |
| DLG34, 6.1975- CG34 | Biddle | 347 | Bath Iron Wks | 9.12.1963 | 2.7.1965 | 21.1.1967 | stricken 11.1994 |
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Displacement standard, t |
5409 |
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Displacement full, t |
7890 |
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Length, m |
159.8 wl 166.8 oa |
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Breadth, m |
16.7 |
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Draught, m |
5.50 |
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No of shafts |
2 |
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Machinery |
DLG26, 27: 2 sets General Electric geared steam turbines, 4 Combustion Engineering boilers DLG28, 32, 34: 2 sets General Electric geared steam turbines, 4 Foster-Wheeler boilers DLG29 - 31, 33: 2 sets De Laval geared steam turbines, 4 Combustion Engineering boilers |
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Power, h. p. |
85000 |
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Max speed, kts |
32 |
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Fuel, t |
oil 1800 |
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Endurance, nm (kts) |
7100(20) |
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Armament |
1 x 2 Terrier SAM / ASROC ASuR (40 RIM-2, 20 RUR-5), 1 x 1 - 127/54 Mk 42, 2 x 1 - 76/50 Mk 34, 2 - 533 Mk 25 TT, 2 x 3 - 324 Mk 32 TT (18 Mk 46), 1 DASH drone ASW helicopter |
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Electronic equipment |
DLG26, 27: SPS-43, SPS-48, SPS-10F, 2x SPG-55, SPG-53, 2x Mk 35 radars, SQS-26BX sonar, WLR-1, WLR-3 ECM suites, 2x Mk 28 decoy RL DLG28 - 34: SPS-43, SPS-48, SPS-10F, 2x SPG-55, SPG-53, 2x Mk 35 radars, SQS-26BX sonar, WLR-1, WLR-3 ECM suites, 2x Mk 28 decoy RL, NTDS CCS |
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Complement |
388 |
Project history: These ships suffered a somewhat tortured design history, originating as an attempt to produce a missile destroyer both less expensive than the Adams class and more effective in ASW, with the new SQS-26 sonar and endurance increased from under 4500nm to 6000nm; the result, even with a new austere missile system (twelve rather than forty Tartars were planned) was far more expensive than the original destroyer. Quite soon Terrier was substituted, as befitting so expensive a ship, and the existing Leahy class hull was adapted to the new design. However, its destroyer origin survived in the requirement for a single 127mm/54 rapid-fire gun. Considerable economy in design was achieved by combining the Terrier and ASROC launchers; the system mounted in these ships can accommodate up to sixty Terriers, or it can accommodate forty Terriers and up to twenty ASROCs. Increasing interest in ASW was also manifested in provision for the DASH ASW drone helicopter, and for Mk 25 torpedo tubes in the transom.
Wainwright was the first to be completed with the Naval Tactical Data System integrated into her weapon control system.
Modernizations: late 1960s, Belknap, Josephus Daniels: + NTDS CCS
1970s, all: - 2 - 533 TT; + LN-66 radar
late 1970s, Belknap, Josephus Daniels, Wainwright; early 1980s, Jouett, Horne: - 1 x 2 Terrier SAM / ASROC ASW rocket launcher (40 RIM-2, 20 RUR-5), 2 x 1 - 76/50, SPS-43, SPS-48 radars; + 2 x 4 Harpoon SSM (8 RGM-84), 1 x 2 Standard SM-1MR SAM / ASROC ASuR (40 RIM-66, 20 RUR-5), SPS-48C, SPS-49(v)3 radars, 4x Mk 36 SRBOC decoy RL
late 1970s, William H. Standley, Fox; early 1980s, Sterett, Biddle: - 1 x 2 Terrier SAM / ASROC ASuR (40 RIM-2, 20 RUR-5), 2 x 1 - 76/50, SPS-43, SPS-48 radars; + 2 x 4 Harpoon SSM (8 RGM-84), 1 x 2 Standard SM-1MR SAM / ASROC ASuR (40 RIM-66, 20 RUR-5), SPS-48C, SPS-40 radars, 4x Mk 36 SRBOC decoy RL
late 1970s, Belknap, Jouett, Biddle; early 1980s, Josephus Daniels, Wainwright, Horne, Sterett, William H. Standley, Fox: + 2 x 6 -20/76 Mk 15 Phalanx, 2x Mk 90 radars
1971-1977, all: - 1 DASH drone helicopter; + 1 SH-2D Sea Sprite ASW helicopter
1980, Belknap: - SQS-26BX sonar; + SQS-53A sonar
1980s, Josephus Daniels: - SQS-26BX sonar; + SQS-26AXR sonar
early 1980s, all: - 1 x 2 Standard SM-1MR SAM / ASROC ASuR (40 RIM-66, 20 RUR-5), WLR-1, WLR-3 ECM suites, 2x Mk 28 decoy RL; + 1 x 2 Standard SM-2ER SAM / ASROC ASuR (40 RIM-67, 20 RUR-5), 4 x 1 - 12.7/90, SLQ-32(v)3 ECM suite, 4x Mk 36 SRBOC decoy RL
1983-1985, Belknap, Wainwright, Horne, Sterett: + TFCC CCS
1986, Belknap: - SH-2D Sea Sprite helicopter, helicopter deck and hangar
late 1980s, all: - SPS-10F radar; + SPS-67(v)1 radar, SLQ-25 Nixie torpedo decoy
7/1987, Biddle, 1989, Horne, Jouett; 1990, Fox; 1991-1993, Belknap, Josephus Daniels, Wainwright, Sterett, William H. Standley: - 1 x 2 Standard SM-2ER SAM / ASROC ASuR (40 RIM-67, 20 RUR-5), SPS-48C radar; + 1 x 2 Standard SM-1MR SAM / ASROC ASuR (40 RIM-66, 20 RUR-5), SPS-48E radar
late 1980s, some: - LN-66 radar; + SPS-64(v)9 radar
Naval service: Belknap was severely damaged by collision with aircraft carrier John F. Kennedy in 22.11.1975 near Sicily and was under repair and rebuilding till May 1980.
Fox 9.1987
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