USS Donald Cook (DDG-75)

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USS Donald Cook
Donald Cook underway
History
United States
Name: USS Donald Cook
Namesake: Donald Cook
Ordered: 19 January 1993
Builder: Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine
Laid down: 9 July 1996
Launched: 3 May 1997
Acquired: 21 August 1998
Commissioned: 4 December 1998
Homeport: Naval Station Rota
Motto: Faith Without Fear
Status: in active service, as of 2024
General characteristics
Class & type: Arleigh Burke-class destroyer
Displacement:
  • Light: approx. 6,765 tons
  • Full: approx. 8,900 tons
Length: 505 ft (154 m)
Beam: 66 ft (20 m)
Draft: 31 ft (9.4 m)
Propulsion: 4 General Electric LM2500-30 gas turbines, two shafts, 100,000 total shaft horsepower (75 MW)
Speed: >30 knots (56 km/h)
Range:
Complement:
Sensors and
processing systems:
Electronic warfare
& decoys:
Armament:
Aircraft carried: 1 × SH-60 Sea Hawk helicopter can be embarked

USS Donald Cook (DDG-75) is an Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer in the United States Navy.

Named for Donald Cook, a Vietnam War prisoner of war who died in captivity, the destroyer was commissioned in 1998. It was one of the first U.S. warships to come to the aid of USS Cole after it was damaged by suicide bombers on 12 October 2000. In 2003, the ship fired Tomahawk missiles during Operation Iraqi Freedom.[1]

On 16 February 2012, Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus announced Donald Cook will be one of four ships to be homeported at Naval Station Rota, Spain.[2]

Service history

On 24 February 2012, Donald Cook was awarded the 2011 Battle Efficiency "E" award.[3]

On 9 April 2014, U.S. military officials confirmed the deployment of Donald Cook to the Black Sea,[4] shortly after Russia′s annexation of Crimea and amid the pro-Russian unrest in Ukraine. The official statement claimed the vessel′s mission was "to reassure NATO allies and Black Sea partners of America’s commitment to strengthen and improve interoperability while working towards mutual goals in the region".[5] On 10 April 2014, the warship was reported to have entered the Black Sea.[6] On 12 April 2014, an unarmed Russian Su-24 "Fencer" fighter jet made twelve close-range passes of the USS Cook during a patrol of the western Black Sea.[7][8][9] According to an allegation by a Pentagon spokesman, "The aircraft did not respond to multiple queries and warnings from Donald Cook, and the event ended without incident after approximately 90 minutes. <...> The Donald Cook is more than capable of defending itself against two Su-24s."[10] In 2014, Russia′s state-run news media outlets, without citing any specific sources of information, ran a series of reports that claimed that during that incident the Su-24, equipped with the Khibiny electronic warfare system, disabled the ship's Aegis combat systems.[11][12][13] The jamming claims were ignored by Western mainstream media. They were dismissed in February 2015 as "nothing but a newspaper hoax" by the Khibiny jammer's Russian manufacturer KRET' website, which asserted that Khibiny was not installed on Su-24 but claimed it was "capable of completely neutralising the enemy radar".[14] One analyst described the incident as "about as tame a flyby as you can get."[15]

On 14 April 2014, Donald Cook visited Constanta, Romania. The President of Romania, Traian Băsescu, toured the ship during the visit. Donald Cook then conducted various exercises in concert with the Romanian Navy before departing the Black Sea on 24 April, 2014.[16]

On 26 December 2014, for the second time, according to the US Navy, the destroyer entered the Black Sea in order to reassure and demonstrate US commitment to work closely with NATO allies.[17] Donald Cook participated in exercises with the Turkish Navy including an underway replenishment and other exercises with Yavuz-class frigate TCG Fatih on 28 December 2014. The ship visited Constanta, Romania on 30 December and Varna, Bulgaria on 8 January 2015. Donald Cook participated in exercises with Ukrainian Navy ship Hetman Sahaydachniy on 11 January 2015. Donald Cook departed the Black Sea on 14 January 2015.[18]

Upgrade

On 12 November 2009, the Missile Defense Agency announced that Donald Cook would be upgraded during fiscal 2012 to RIM-161 Standard Missile 3 (SM-3) capability in order to function as part of the Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense System.[19]

In popular culture

Donald Cook was featured in the "Super Fast Warship" episode of Build It Bigger.

References

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Further reading

  • Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. (Describes the construction of Donald Cook at Bath Iron Works.)

External links

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