USS Shoup

USS Shoup

Commanding Officer Commander Christopher H. Halton

USS SHOUP (DDG 86) is the 36th ship in the Arleigh Burke class of Aegis guided missile destroyers, and the eighth Flight IIA Aegis destroyer.She is the sixteenth Aegis destroyer constructed by Northrop Grumman Ship Systems' Ingalls Operations. Her keel was laid on 13 December 1999 in Pascagoula, MS.She was launched on 22 November 2000,and delivered to the Navy on 19 February 2002. She was commissioned at Port Terminal 37 in Seattle, WA on 22 June 2002. SHOUP was built to conduct simultaneous operations in multi-threat environments including air, surface, and subsurface targets.

Notes of Interest:
Propulsion: Four General Electric LM 2500-30 gas turbines; two shafts, 100,000 total shaft horsepower.
Length: Flights I and II (DDG 51-78): 505 feet (153.92 meters)
Flight IIA (DDG 79-98): 509½ feet (155.29 meters).
Displacement: Hulls 51 through 71: 8,315 tons (8,448.04 metric tons) full load
Hulls 72 through 78: 8,400 tons (8,534.4 metric tons) full load
Hulls 79 and on: 9,200 tons (9,347.2 metric tons) full load.
Speed: in excess of 30 knots.Crew: 23 officers, 300 enlisted.
Armament: Standard missile; Harpoon; Vertical Launch ASROC (VLA) missiles; Tomahawk®; six Mk-46 torpedoes (from two triple tube mounts); one 5
Aircraft: LAMPS III electronics installed on landing deck for coordinated DDG 51/helo ASW operations (DDG 51-78). Two SH-60 Seahawk LAMPS III helicopters (DDG 79-105)

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