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USS Chesapeake (FFG-64)

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U.S. Navy guided-missile frigate FFG(X) artist rendering, 30 April 2020 (200430-N-NO101-150)
Artist rendering of the final Constellation-class design
Career (United States)
Name: Chesapeake
Namesake: USS Chesapeake
Awarded: 16 May 2022[1]
Builder: Fincantieri Marinette Marine, Marinette, Wisconsin
Sponsored by: Barbara Strasser
Identification: Hull number: FFG-64
Status: Ordered
General characteristics
Class & type: Constellation-class frigate
Displacement: 7,400 short tons (6,700 t)
Length: 496 ft (151.18 m)
Beam: 65 ft (19.81 m)
Draft: 26 ft (7.92 m)
Propulsion:
  • CODLAG
  • 1 × General Electric LM2500+G4 gas turbine[2]
  • driving a Philadelphia Gear Gearbox system[3]
  • 2 × electric propulsion motors: INDAR 2 x 3.4 MW
  • 4 × ship service diesel generators Rolls-Royce MTU 20V 4000 M53B engine 3000 kW for a total output of 12 MW electrical ship power
  • 2 x fixed-pitch propellers
  • 1 × auxiliary propulsion unit Thrustmasters of Texas Hydrologic Retractable Thruster
Speed: in excess of 26 kn (48 km/h; 30 mph)
Range: 6,000 nmi (11,000 km; 6,900 mi) at 16 kn (30 km/h; 18 mph) (electric drive)
Boats & landing
craft carried:
Capacity: 200 accommodations
Complement: 140 crew
Sensors and
processing systems:
Armament:
  • 32 Mark 41 VLS cells with:
  • Possibly RIM-162 ESSM Block 2 and/or RIM-174 Standard ERAM missiles
  • Planned RIM-66 Standard SM-2 Block 3C
  • 8 × or 16 × canister launched Over-the-horizon Anti-Ship Weapons (likely Naval Strike Missile)
  • RIM-116 Rolling Airframe Missile launched from Mk 49 Guided Missile Launching System (21 cell)
  • Mk 110 57mm gun with the Advanced Low Cost Munition Ordnance (ALaMO) projectile and related systems.
  • Various machine guns M240 or M2
    • Aircraft carried:
  • 1 × MH-60R Seahawk helicopter
  • MQ-8C Firescout

    • USS Chesapeake (FFG-64) will be the third Constellation-class guided-missile frigate.[1] The sixth ship in the United States Navy bearing this name,[4] she will be built by Marinette Marine, a subsidiary of Fincantieri, with an expected completion date of August 2028.[5] She is named in honor of the first USS Chesapeake, one of the original six frigates of the United States Navy.[4] The ship will be sponsored by Barbara Strasser, the wife of Rear Admiral Joseph C. Strasser.[4]

    References[]

    1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Chesapeake (FFG-64)". Naval Vessel Register. http://www.nvr.navy.mil/NVRSHIPS/DETAILS/FFG64.HTM. 
    2. ↑ [1] GE, The LM2500+G4 Engine
    3. ↑ https://news.timken.com/2020-10-21-Timkens-Philadelphia-Gear-to-Supply-Critical-Components-for-U-S-Navy-Frigate-Program
    4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 "SECNAV Names Future Vessels while aboard Historic Navy Ship". United States Navy. 15 January 2021. https://www.navy.mil/Press-Office/News-Stories/Article/2474454/secnav-names-future-vessels-while-aboard-historic-navy-ship/. 
    5. ↑ "US Navy commissions third Constellation-class frigate". Shephard Media. 22 June 2022. https://www.shephardmedia.com/news/naval-warfare/us-navy-commissions-third-constellation-class-frigate/. 
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