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  Fox 9.1987

Ships

No	Name	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comm	Fate
DLG26, 6.1975- CG26	Belknap	342	Bath Iron Wks	5.2.1962	20.7.1963	7.11.1964	stricken 2.1995
DLG27, 6.1975- CG27	Josephus Daniels	343	Bath Iron Wks	23.4.1962	2.12.1963	8.5.1965	stricken 1.1994
DLG28, 6.1975- CG28	Wainwright	344	Bath Iron Wks	2.7.1962	25.4.1964	8.1.1966	stricken 11.1993
DLG29, 6.1975- CG29	Jouett		Puget Sound N Yd, Bremerton	25.9.1962	30.6.1964	3.12.1966	stricken 1.1994
DLG30, 6.1975- CG30	Horne		Mare Island N Yd, San Francisco	12.12.1962	30.10.1964	15.4.1967	stricken 2.1994
DLG31, 6.1975- CG31	Sterett		Puget Sound N Yd, Bremerton	25.9.1962	30.6.1965	8.4.1967	stricken 3.1994
DLG32, 6.1975- CG32	William H. Standley	346	Bath Iron Wks	29.7.1963	19.12.1964	9.7.1966	stricken 3.1994
DLG33, 6.1975- CG33	Fox	80	Todd, San Pedro	15.1.1963	21.11.1964	28.5.1966	stricken 4.1994
DLG34, 6.1975- CG34	Biddle	347	Bath Iron Wks	9.12.1963	2.7.1965	21.1.1967	stricken 11.1994

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	5409
Displacement full, t	7890
Length, m	159.8 wl 166.8 oa
Breadth, m	16.7
Draught, m	5.50
No of shafts	2
Machinery	DLG26, 27: 2 sets General Electric geared steam turbines, 4 Combustion Engineering boilers DLG28, 32, 34: 2 sets General Electric geared steam turbines, 4 Foster-Wheeler boilers DLG29 - 31, 33: 2 sets De Laval geared steam turbines, 4 Combustion Engineering boilers
Power, h. p.	85000
Max speed, kts	32
Fuel, t	oil 1800
Endurance, nm(kts)	7100(20)
Armament	1 x 2 Terrier SAM / ASROC ASuR (40 RIM-2, 20 RUR-5), 1 x 1 - 127/54 Mk 42, 2 x 1 - 76/50 Mk 34, 2 - 533 Mk 25 TT, 2 x 3 - 324 Mk 32 TT (18 Mk 46), 1 DASH drone ASW helicopter
Electronic equipment	DLG26, 27: SPS-43, SPS-48, SPS-10F, 2x SPG-55, SPG-53, 2x Mk 35 radars, SQS-26BX sonar, WLR-1, WLR-3 ECM suites, 2x Mk 28 decoy RL DLG28 - 34: SPS-43, SPS-48, SPS-10F, 2x SPG-55, SPG-53, 2x Mk 35 radars, SQS-26BX sonar, WLR-1, WLR-3 ECM suites, 2x Mk 28 decoy RL, NTDS CCS
Complement	388

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Project history

These ships suffered a somewhat tortured design history, originating as an attempt to produce a missile destroyer both less expensive than the Adams class and more effective in ASW, with the new SQS-26 sonar and endurance increased from under 4500nm to 6000nm; the result, even with a new austere missile system (twelve rather than forty Tartars were planned) was far more expensive than the original destroyer. Quite soon Terrier was substituted, as befitting so expensive a ship, and the existing Leahy class hull was adapted to the new design. However, its destroyer origin survived in the requirement for a single 127mm/54 rapid-fire gun. Considerable economy in design was achieved by combining the Terrier and ASROC launchers; the system mounted in these ships can accommodate up to sixty Terriers, or it can accommodate forty Terriers and up to twenty ASROCs. Increasing interest in ASW was also manifested in provision for the DASH ASW drone helicopter, and for Mk 25 torpedo tubes in the transom.

Wainwright was the first to be completed with the Naval Tactical Data System integrated into her weapon control system.

Modernizations

late 1960s, Belknap, Josephus Daniels: + NTDS CCS

1970s, all: - 2 - 533 TT; + LN-66 radar

late 1970s, Belknap, Josephus Daniels, Wainwright; early 1980s, Jouett, Horne: - 1 x 2 Terrier SAM / ASROC ASW rocket launcher (40 RIM-2, 20 RUR-5), 2 x 1 - 76/50, SPS-43, SPS-48 radars; + 2 x 4 Harpoon SSM (8 RGM-84), 1 x 2 Standard SM-1MR SAM / ASROC ASuR (40 RIM-66, 20 RUR-5), SPS-48C, SPS-49(v)3 radars, 4x Mk 36 SRBOC decoy RL

late 1970s, William H. Standley, Fox; early 1980s, Sterett, Biddle: - 1 x 2 Terrier SAM / ASROC ASuR (40 RIM-2, 20 RUR-5), 2 x 1 - 76/50, SPS-43, SPS-48 radars; + 2 x 4 Harpoon SSM (8 RGM-84), 1 x 2 Standard SM-1MR SAM / ASROC ASuR (40 RIM-66, 20 RUR-5), SPS-48C, SPS-40 radars, 4x Mk 36 SRBOC decoy RL

late 1970s, Belknap, Jouett, Biddle; early 1980s, Josephus Daniels, Wainwright, Horne, Sterett, William H. Standley, Fox: + 2 x 6 -20/76 Mk 15 Phalanx, 2x Mk 90 radars

1971-1977, all: - 1 DASH drone helicopter; + 1 SH-2D Sea Sprite ASW helicopter

1980, Belknap: - SQS-26BX sonar; + SQS-53A sonar

1980s, Josephus Daniels: - SQS-26BX sonar; + SQS-26AXR sonar

early 1980s, all: - 1 x 2 Standard SM-1MR SAM / ASROC ASuR (40 RIM-66, 20 RUR-5), WLR-1, WLR-3 ECM suites, 2x Mk 28 decoy RL; + 1 x 2 Standard SM-2ER SAM / ASROC ASuR (40 RIM-67, 20 RUR-5), 4 x 1 - 12.7/90, SLQ-32(v)3 ECM suite, 4x Mk 36 SRBOC decoy RL

1983-1985, Belknap, Wainwright, Horne, Sterett: + TFCC CCS

1986, Belknap: - SH-2D Sea Sprite helicopter, helicopter deck and hangar

late 1980s, all: - SPS-10F radar; + SPS-67(v)1 radar, SLQ-25 Nixie torpedo decoy

7/1987, Biddle, 1989, Horne, Jouett; 1990, Fox; 1991-1993, Belknap, Josephus Daniels, Wainwright, Sterett, William H. Standley: - 1 x 2 Standard SM-2ER SAM / ASROC ASuR (40 RIM-67, 20 RUR-5), SPS-48C radar; + 1 x 2 Standard SM-1MR SAM / ASROC ASuR (40 RIM-66, 20 RUR-5), SPS-48E radar

late 1980s, some: - LN-66 radar; + SPS-64(v)9 radar

Naval service

Belknap was severely damaged by collision with aircraft carrier John F. Kennedy in 22.11.1975 near Sicily and was under repair and rebuilding till May 1980.