Thanks Lorry -- that's a warship I'd like to see in detail. I became
intimately familiar with a Fletcher class specially rigged for experimental ASW
evaluation but that was long ago. We beat 30 knots pretty handily but were
limited in duration. Can't think of a good reason why those gas turbines would
suffer any such limitation. Fletcher (unmodified) was only 2100 tons, 387 feet
but we packed some mean stuff.
> The Spruance Class was the first Naval warship to use gas turbine engines.
>
> Builder: Ingalls Shipbuilding
> Power plant: Four General Electric LM 2500 gas turbines, two shafts, 80,000
> shaft horsepower
> SPY-1 Radar and Combat System Integrator: Lockheed Martin
> Length: 563 feet (171.6 meters)
> Beam: 55 feet (16.8 meters)
> Displacement: 9,100 tons (9,246.04 metric tons) full load
> Speed: in excess of 30 knots
>
> Lorry
intimately familiar with a Fletcher class specially rigged for experimental ASW
evaluation but that was long ago. We beat 30 knots pretty handily but were
limited in duration. Can't think of a good reason why those gas turbines would
suffer any such limitation. Fletcher (unmodified) was only 2100 tons, 387 feet
but we packed some mean stuff.
> The Spruance Class was the first Naval warship to use gas turbine engines.
>
> Builder: Ingalls Shipbuilding
> Power plant: Four General Electric LM 2500 gas turbines, two shafts, 80,000
> shaft horsepower
> SPY-1 Radar and Combat System Integrator: Lockheed Martin
> Length: 563 feet (171.6 meters)
> Beam: 55 feet (16.8 meters)
> Displacement: 9,100 tons (9,246.04 metric tons) full load
> Speed: in excess of 30 knots
>
> Lorry
