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USS SAM NUNN (DDG 133)

CLASS - BURKE Flight III As Built.
Displacement 8373 Tons (Full), Dimensions, 509' 5" (oa) x 66' 11" x 20' (Max)
Armament 1 x 5"/62 RF, Evolved Sea Sparrow Missile (ESSM), 96 VLS Cells,
2 SH-60B helicopters, 8 Harpoon Missiles, 6 x 12.75" TT.
Machinery, 100,000 SHP; 4 GE LM-2500 Gas Turbines, 2 screws
Speed, 30+ Knots, Range 4400 NM@ 20 Knots, Crew 370.
Operational and Building Data
To be built by HII - Ingalls Shipbuilding Division, Pascagoula, Mississippi (YN 5333)
Contract awarded 27 September 2018
Named by SecNav 06 May 2019
Fabrication begun 12 December 2022

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196kSecretary of the Navy Richard V. Spencer named a future Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer, DDG 133, in honor of U.S. Senator Sam Nunn, who represented Georgia from 1972 to 1997. “Senator Nunn’s impact on the Navy and Marine Corps team cannot be overstated,” Spencer said. “His leadership in the Senate, specifically as the long-serving chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, helped streamline the military chain of command and strengthen our Navy and Marine Corps team. I am pleased that Senator Nunn’s legacy of service to our nation will continue in the future USS Sam Nunn.” Nunn served in the U.S. Coast Guard 1959 to 1960 and remained in the Coast Guard Reserve until 1968. He was elected to the Georgia House of Representatives in 1968 and in 1972 was first elected to the U.S. Senate. During his tenure as a U.S. senator, Nunn served as chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Armed Services and the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. He helped draft the Department of Defense Reorganization Act and the Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction Program, which provided assistance to Russia and the former Soviet republics for securing and destroying their excess nuclear, biological and chemical weapons.
2010 headshot, Nuclear Threat Initative via Wikipedia
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USS Sam Nunn (DDG 133)
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456k190506-N-DM308-001 Washington, DC, May 06, 2019. An artist rendering of the future Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Sam Nunn (DDG 133). (U.S. Navy photo illustration/Released)Dave Wright
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1022kDevin McCarty, a burner specialist at Ingalls Shipbuilding, starts fabrication of steel for the Aegis guided missile destroyer Sam Nunn (DDG 133), 12 December 2022. Observing are, from left, Lt. Cmdr. Rob Allen, Aegis test officer, Supervisor of Shipbuilding, Gulf Coast; Bob Poppenhouse, Ingalls DDG prelaunch ship program manager; Braxton Collins, Ingalls Hull general superintendent; John Fillmore, Ingalls DDG 51 class program manager; and Ray Pelanne, deputy DDG 51 class program manager's representative, Supervisor of Shipbuilding, Gulf Coast.
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