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Destroyers - USA
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"Coontz" Class
Guided missile destroyers:
10 units commissioned 1960 - 1961
Displacement, tons: 4580 standard,
- 5907 full load
Dimensions, meters: 156,3 x
16 x 7,1
Missiles: 8 x 4 Harpoon, -
Standard SM-2 launchers (1 x Twin launcher - 40 missiles carried)
Guns: 1 x 127 mm
A/S weapons: 1 Asroc 8-tube
launcher, - 2 triple torpedo tubes.
Propulsion: Geared turbines,
- 85.000 shp, 2 shafts, - speed: 33 knots
USS "William V. Pratt DDG 44
Photographed in Puerto Cabello,
Venezuela, Dec. 01, 1975
(Photography by Karsten Petersen ©)
USS "William V. Pratt DDG 44
Photographed in Puerto Cabello,
Venezuela, Dec. 01. 1975
(Photography by Karsten Petersen ©)
USS "William V. Pratt DDG 44
Photographed in Puerto Cabello,
Venezuela, Dec. 01. 1975
(Photography by Karsten Petersen ©)
USS "William V. Pratt DDG 44
- alongside pier side by side
with "Garcia" class frigate USS "Brumby" -
Photographed in Puerto Cabello,
Venezuela, Nov. 27. 1975
(Photography by Karsten Petersen ©)
USS "William V. Pratt DDG 44
- alongside pier side by side
with "Garcia" class frigate USS "Brumby" -
Photographed in Puerto Cabello,
Venezuela, - Nov. 27. 1975
(Photography by Karsten Petersen ©)
USS "William V. Pratt DDG 44
- a closer view -
Photographed in Puerto Cabello,
Venezuela, Nov. 30. 1975
(Photography by Karsten Petersen ©)
USS "William V. Pratt DDG 44
- mast top arrangement -
Photographed in Puerto Cabello,
Venezuela, Nov. 30. 1975
(Photography by Karsten Petersen ©)
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