USS Jeremiah Denton

Guided missile destroyer

History
Graphical depiction of USS Jeremiah Denton (DDG-129)
United States
Name	USS Jeremiah Denton
Namesake	Jeremiah Denton
Awarded	27 September 2018^[1]
Builder	Huntington Ingalls Industries
Laid down	16 August 2022^[2]
Identification	Hull number: DDG-129
Status	Under construction
General characteristics
Class and type	Arleigh Burke-class destroyer
Displacement	9,217 tons (full load)^[3]
Length	510 ft (160 m)^[3]
Beam	66 ft (20 m)^[3]
Propulsion	4 × General Electric LM2500 gas turbines 100,000 shp (75,000 kW)^[3]
Speed	31 knots (57 km/h; 36 mph)^[3]
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 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
Armor	Kevlar-type armor with steel hull. Numerous passive survivability measures.
Aircraft carried	2 × MH-60R Seahawk helicopters
Aviation facilities	Double hangar and helipad

USS Jeremiah Denton (DDG-129) is a planned Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer of the United States Navy, the 79th overall for the class.^[1] She will be named in honor of former U.S. Senator for Alabama and retired Rear Admiral Jeremiah Denton, a Vietnam War veteran and prisoner of war, who was a recipient of the Navy Cross. Jeremiah Denton will be the fourth ship of the Flight III series.^[4]

References

^ ^a ^b "Jeremiah Denton (DDG 129)". Naval Vessel Register. Retrieved 28 January 2019.
^ "Keel Authenticated for Future USS Jeremiah Denton" (Press release). United States Navy. 16 August 2022. Retrieved 16 August 2022.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e "DDG-51 Arleigh Burke-class". Federation of American Scientists. FAS.org. 2 November 2016. Retrieved 9 June 2021.
^ "SECNAV Names Future Destroyer in honor of Navy Veteran, Vietnam War POW" (Press release). United States Navy. 4 January 2019. NNS190104-04. Retrieved 25 January 2019.

This article includes information collected from the Naval Vessel Register, which, as a U.S. government publication, is in the public domain. The entry can be found here.

Arleigh Burke-class destroyers

Flight I ships

Arleigh Burke
Barry
John Paul Jones
Curtis Wilbur
Stout
John S. McCain
Mitscher
Laboon
Russell
Paul Hamilton
Ramage
Fitzgerald
Stethem
Carney
Benfold
Gonzalez
Cole
The Sullivans
Milius
Hopper
Ross

Flight II ships

Mahan
Decatur
McFaul
Donald Cook
Higgins
O'Kane
Porter

Flight IIA ships

5"/54 variant	Oscar Austin Roosevelt
5"/62 variant	Winston S. Churchill Lassen Howard Bulkeley McCampbell Shoup Mason Preble Mustin Chafee Pinckney Momsen Chung-Hoon Nitze James E. Williams Bainbridge Halsey Forrest Sherman Farragut Kidd Gridley Sampson Truxtun Sterett Dewey Stockdale Gravely Wayne E. Meyer Jason Dunham William P. Lawrence Spruance Michael Murphy John Finn Ralph Johnson Rafael Peralta Thomas Hudner Paul Ignatius Daniel Inouye Delbert D. Black Carl M. Levin Frank E. Petersen Jr. John Basilone Lenah Sutcliffe Higbee Harvey C. Barnum Jr. Patrick Gallagher

5"/54 variant