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USS Shoup (DDG-86)
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| Ordered: | 13 December 1996 |
| Laid down: | 13 December 1999 |
| Launched: | 22 November 2000 |
| Commissioned: | 22 June 2002 |
| Decommissioned: | |
| Status: | Active in service as of 2007 |
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| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 9,200 tons |
| Length: | 509 ft 6 in (155.3 m) |
| Beam: | 66 ft (20.1 m) |
| Draught: | 31 ft (9.4 m) |
| Propulsion: | 4 × General Electric LM2500-30 gas turbines, 2 shafts, 100,000 shp (75 MW) |
| Speed: | 30+ knots |
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| Complement: | 380 officers and enlisted |
| Armament: | 1 x 32 cell, 1 x 64 cell Mk 41 vertical launch systems, 96 x RIM-67 SM-2, BGM-109 Tomahawk or RUM-139 VL-Asroc, missiles 1 x 5/62 in (127/62 mm), 2 x 25 mm, 4 x 12.7 mm guns 1 x 20mm Phalanx 1B Baseline 1 CIWS 2 x Mk 46 triple torpedo tubes |
| Aircraft: | 2 x SH-60 Sea Hawk helicopters |
| Motto: | Victoria Per Perserverantiam Venit -"Through Perseverance Comes Victory" |
USS Shoup (DDG-86) is an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer in the United States Navy. Construction on the ship began at the Northrop Grumman Ship Systems' Ingalls Operations on 10 November 1998. Her keel was laid on 13 December 1999 and she was launched on 22 November 2000. Shoup sailed into the Gulf of Mexico for the first of her sea trials on 11 December 2001. The vessel was delivered to the Navy by Northrop Grumman on 18 February 2002 and departed Pascagoula on 22 April 2002. Shoup was commissioned on 22 June 2002 at Port Terminal 37 in Seattle, Washington.
The ship is named for David M. Shoup the 22nd Commandant of the Marine Corps.
In January 2005, she participated in Operation Unified Assistance. She was used as a filming location for the new Transformers movie.
This article includes information collected from the Naval Vessel Register, which, as a U.S. government publication, is in the public domain.
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