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| About the USS Cole |
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TYPE: Arleigh Burke class guided-missile destroyerCREW: 23 officers, 300 enlisted BUILDERS: Bath Iron Works POWER PLANT: Four General Electric LM 2500-30 gas turbines; two shafts, 100,000 total shaft horsepower SPY-1 RADAR AND COMBAT SYSTEM INTEGRATOR: Lockheed Martin LENGTH: 466 feet BEAM: 59 feet DISPLACEMENT: 8,300 tons full load SPEED: Excess of 30 knots ARMAMENT: Standard missiles; Harpoon missiles; Vertical Launch ASROC missiles; Tomahawk cruise missiles; six Mk-46 torpedoes; one 5"/54 caliber Mk-45 (lightweight gun); two 20mm Phalanx close-in weapons systems QUICK FACT: Named for Marine Sgt. Darrell Samuel Cole, a Medal of Honor winner during the World War II battle for Iwo Jima SOURCE: United States Navy © 2000 SHNS, All Rights Reserved MORE INFO: |
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