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Recently delivered by Ingalls, the U.S.S. Essex (LHD 2) will sail in mid-September for her Pacific Fleet homeport in San Diego.

Ingalls Delivers U.S.S. Essex

The U.S.S. Essex (LHD 2) was recently delivered to the U.S. Navy by Ingalls Shipbuilding division of

Litton in Pascagoula, Miss. The ship is scheduled to sail in mid-Septem- ber for her new Pacific Fleet homeport in San Diego, Calif.

Ingalls delivered the lead ship of the LHD program, U.S.S. Wasp (LHD 1) in May 1989. That ship is now on duty with the U.S. Atlantic

Fleet. In September 1986, the U.S.

Navy awarded Ingalls an additional contract in the LHD program, after competitive bidding, which included the LHD 2 construction contract, as well as now-exercised options for

Kearsarge (LHD 3) and Boxer (LHD 4), now under construction. In De- cember 1991 Ingalls was awarded a contract to build a fifth vessel,

Bataan (LHD 5).

LHD 2's major equipment sub- contractors include: Westinghouse,

Sunnyvale, Calif., for reduction gears and turbines; Litton Guid- ance and Control Systems division,

Woodland Hills, Calif., ship control consoles; Combustion Engineering,

Inc., Windsor, Conn., boilers; Gen- eral Electric Company, Fitchburg,

Mass., generators; Jered Brown

Brothers, Troy, Mich., elevators and steering gears; Litton Data Systems division, Pascagoula, Miss., elec- tronic equipment; Crane Defense

Systems, Conroe, Texas, helicopter handling system; Airtron, Morris

Plains, N.J., waveguides; National

Forge Company, Erie, Pa., propul- sion shafting; and Stewart and

Stevenson Services, Houston, Texas, diesel generators.

The centerpiece of the Navy's amphibious groups, the Wasp Class is the first to be specifically designed to carry the Landing Craft Air Cush- ion (LCAC) and the Harrier II (AV- 8B) vertical take-off and landing jet.

The U.S.S. Essex is 844 feet long, with a beam of 106 feet. Two steam propulsion plants develop a com- bined 70,000 hp to drive the 40,500- ton ship at over 20 knots.

In addition to accommodations for 3,000 crew and embarked troops, the ship is provided with six medical operating rooms, four dental oper- ating rooms and hospital facilities for 600 patients. LHD 2 also has more than 22,000 square feet of ve- hicle space and 100,000 cubic feet of cargo space.

Sophisticated sensors and elec- tronics, a highly automated combat information center (CIC) and large staff accommodations allow LHD 2 to serve as the flagship for large scale amphibious operations.

Together with its 2.2-acre flight deck, 13,000-square foot well deck with monorail cargo handling sys- tem and 15,000-square foot hanger deck, LHD 2 has the means to de- ploy, command and support all ele- ments of a 1,870-man Marine land- ing force in assault by air and am- phibious craft.

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U.S.S. Barry (DDG 52) underway during sea trials.

U.S.S. Barry On Sea Trials

The U.S.S. Barry (DDG 52), the first of eight ships being built by

Ingalls Shipbuilding Division of

Litton, Pascagoula, Miss., for the

U.S. Navy's Aegis guided missile destroyer program, is presently un- dergoing at-sea testing before its delivery to the Navy later this year.

DDG 52 is the second ship in the

Navy's Arleigh Burke (DDG 51)

Class, designed to provide primary protection for the fleet through the next century. The U.S.S. Barry is 504 feet long, with a beam of 59 feet.

Four General Electric/LM-2500 gas turbine engines power the 8,300- ton destroyer to speeds in excess of 30 knots.

The vessel is the fourth Navy destroyer named to commemorate the American Revolutionary War hero, Captain John Barry (1745- 1803), holder of the Navy's first com- mission.

DDG-52's Aegis Combat System, the world's foremost naval weapon system, includes: the AN/SPY-ID phased array radar; the MK-41 Ver- tical Launching System (VLS), which fires a combination of up to 90

Standard surface-to-air, Tomahawk surface-to-land and surface-to-sur- face and VLA antisubmarine mis- siles; and an AN/SQQ 89

Antisubmarine Warfare System, with a bow-mounted AN/SQS 53C sonar and AN/SQR 19 towed sonar array.

The U.S.S. Barry will have eight

Harpoon antiship missile launchers and MK-32 torpedo tubes, both mounted on the ship's deck. MK-15

Phalanx Close-In Weapons Systems and a five-inch deck gun will also be fitted. DDG 52 also features the

LAMPS MK-III Control System, with helicopter landing and replen- ishment facilities.

U.S.S. BARRY

Equipment List

Main Engines, Reduction Gears,

Ship Control Systems, Sonars,

Aegis Combat System GE

CP Propellers Bird-Johnson

Shaft Bearings American Metal

Steering Gear Sperry

Generators Allison

Pumps Blackmer/Carver/Warren

Refrigeration & AC York

Distilling Plants MEC0

L.P. Air Compressors Ingersoll Rand

Ventilation Fans, Turbine &

Generator Cooling Fans Joy

Fan Coil Assemblies Mario

Valves Cia Val/Marotta/Eaton

Heaters & Coolers Indeeco

Advanced Marine Cable Raychem

Duplex Strainers Chas.Bailey

Commissary Equipment H.H.Green

Aegis Fire Control, SPS 49 Radar,

AN/SPY-lDTransmitters..Raytheon

Aegis destroyers have been de- signed to match maximum surviv- ability with potent offensive capa- bility. In the Aegis destroyer pro- gram, the Navy returns to all-steel construction, with extensive topside armor placed around vital combat systems and machinery spaces.

Acoustic, infrared and radar signa- tures have been reduced and a com- prehensive Collective Protection

System guards against nuclear, chemical or biological agents.

Ingalls Shipbuilding, lead ship- builder for five of the latest classes of Navy surface combatants, has delivered 54 major warships to the fleet since 1975. In addition to the

DDG 51 Class, Ingalls has delivered 15 Ticonderoga (CG 47) Class Aegis guided missile cruisers to the Navy, out of 19 the yard has been con- tracted to build.

Litton is a technology-based com- pany providing advanced electronic, defense and resource exploration services and industrial automation systems to international markets.

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