USS Richard G. Lugar

History
United States
Name	Richard G. Lugar
Namesake	Richard Lugar
Awarded	27 September 2018[1]
Builder	Bath Iron Works
Identification	Hull number: DDG-136
Status	Authorized
General characteristics
Class and type	Arleigh Burke-class destroyer
Displacement	9,217 tons (full load)[2]
Length	510 ft (160 m)[2]
Beam	66 ft (20 m)[2]
Propulsion	4 × General Electric LM2500 gas turbines 100,000 shp (75,000 kW)[2]
Speed	31 knots (57 km/h; 36 mph)[2]
Complement	380 officers and enlisted
Armament	Guns: 1 × 5-inch (127 mm)/62 Mk 45 Mod 4 (lightweight gun) 1 × 20 mm (0.8 in) Phalanx CIWS 2 × 25 mm (0.98 in) Mk 38 machine gun system 4 × 0.50 inches (12.7 mm) caliber guns Missiles: 1 × 32-cell, 1 × 64-cell (96 total cells) Mk 41 vertical launching system (VLS): RIM-66M surface-to-air missile RIM-156 surface-to-air missile RIM-174A standard ERAM RIM-161 anti-ballistic missile RIM-162 ESSM (quad-packed) BGM-109 Tomahawk cruise missile RUM-139 vertical launch ASROC Torpedoes: 2 × Mark 32 triple torpedo tubes: Mark 46 lightweight torpedo Mark 50 lightweight torpedo Mark 54 lightweight torpedo
Armor	Kevlar-type armor with steel hull. Numerous passive survivability measures.
Aircraft carried	2 × MH-60R Seahawk helicopters
Aviation facilities	Double hangar and helipad

USS Richard G. Lugar (DDG-136) is a planned Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer of the United States Navy, the 86th overall for the class.^[1] She was officially named by Secretary of the Navy Richard V. Spencer in honor of Richard G. Lugar, a Republican United States Senator who represented Indiana, who served in the United States Navy from 1957 to 1960 and achieved the rank of Lieutenant Junior Grade, during a ceremony on November 18, 2019 at the Indiana War Memorial in Indianapolis.^{[3] [4]}

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