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Circle 270 on Reader Service Card dard) surface-to-air missiles and will be fitted with two deck- mounted Mk 32 triple torpedo tubes, two improved Phalanx 20mm close-in weapon systems, and one 5"/54 caliber gun. Although she does not have a helicopter hangar, she does have a landing pad aft and is equipped with all the communica- tions and other systems needed to handle the LAMPS (light airborne multi-purpose system) Mk III ASW helicopter. Perhaps her most impor- tant offense feature, though—-it cer- tainly is the most innovative—will be a vertical-launch system (VLS) for Tomahawks, SM-2s, and AS-

ROCs. The Mk 41 VLS, built for the

Navy by Martin Marietta, gives the

DDG-51 the ability to carry and fire more missiles, more rapidly and more effectively, and with less chance of malfunction. The Burkes will carry two VLS units—a 32-cell system forward, and a 64-cell sys- tem aft.

Propulsion: The power plant will be much the same as that in the

Ticonderogas: four General Electric

LM 2500 gas turbines, two shafts, two rudders, 100,000 shp. "Second flight" Burkes (DDG-58 and after) also are likely to be equipped with

Solar Turbines' so-called "Racer" (Ranking cycle Energy Recovery) system, which uses waste heat from the turbines to develop additional energy and make the overall power plant more efficient.

Electronics: Fitted with the SPY-

ID—an improved, lighter-weight version of the Ticonderoga's SPY- 1A—phased array radar (but with one transmitter, instead of two, and three rather than four illuminators), the Burke will be the most AAW- capable destroyer ever built. Other major electronics systems include: the SPS 67 (V) surface search radar (but no separate air search radar); the SQR 19 (TACTAS) towed-array sonar and a bow-mounted SQS-53C sonar: IFF, Tacan, and electronic countermeasures systems; and nu- merous computers, displays, and ra- dio and navigation systems.

A few final points about the

DDG-51 Arleigh Burke guided mis- sile destroyer program itself, and about its significance to the U.S. shipbuilding industry, the Navy, and the nation: • Possibly no other ship class in the post-WWII era has been better named. Former Chief of Naval Op- erations Admiral Arleigh A.

Burke, USN-Ret., first gained fame in World War II in the Pacific, where his dash and daring as com- mander of DesRon 23 (Destroyer

Squadron 23, better known as the "Little Beavers") won him the nick- name "31-Knot Burke." The only officer ever to serve three tours as chief of naval operations, he is also one of the only two USN officers—

Admiral Hyman G. Rickover,

USN-Ret., "the father of the nu- clear Navy," is the other—to have a ship (or, in Burke's case, a ship class) named after him during his own lifetime. • The currently planned 29-ship program might easily be expanded, as suggested earlier, to 49, or 63, or even a larger number of ships. The rationale for an increase was spelled out by Norman Friedman in the (continued on page 88)

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