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The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS John S. McCain (DDG 56) has teamed up with the Ronald Reagan Carrier Strike Group in support of a free and open Indo-Pacific. DDG 56 LATEST NEWS DDG 56
At 5:23 a.m. local time, the Alnic MC, a hulking oil tanker weighing more than three times the McCain, collided with the destroyer, leaving a 28-foot gash in the ship’s left side and trapping ...
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Sep 17, 2021 · The USS John S. McCain sailed out of Tokyo Bay on Friday, leaving Japan after 24 years with 7th Fleet and the heartbreaking loss of 10 crew members from a collision in 2017.
- Covid-19 Impacts
- Simulator Training
- Building Bonds
McCainwas at sea for a 10-day underway for training in early March when the COVID-19 pandemic became more widespread and the Navy began to lock down ships and bases in attempts to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus. The ship entered a “bubble” after extending that underway and returning to Yokosuka in early April for some required in-port ...
During basic phase, McCain’s crew got more than 200 hours of simulator training, much spent on practicing ship-handling at a navigation, seamanship and shiphandling trainer operated by Afloat Training Group Western Pacific. “We can integrate a full navigation and ship-handling team in the simulator,” Easterday said. “We were lucky enough to take ad...
The culminating, final battle problem is designed to stress the crew through complex warfighting and damage control scenarios. During McCain’s final battle, “we actually destroyed the bridge,” he said. “We put a smoke machine in there and posed a bunch of personnel casualties, which forced the damage control organization to figure out how to fight ...
Date Deployed: July 4, 1991 USS Arleigh Burke (DDG 51) Propulsion: Four General Electric LM 2500-30 gas turbines; two shafts, 100,000 total shaft horsepower Length: Flights I and II (DDG 51-78): 505 feet (153.92 meters); Flight IIA and III (DDG 79 AF): 509 1/2
Apr 30, 2021 · USS John S. McCain forms just one part of the large, and ultra-critical, group of guided-missile destroyers serving the modern United States Navy (USN) known as the Arleigh Burke-class. This class currently (2017) numbers over sixty-five total vessels with some seventy-six originally planned for procurement.
