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To: robowombat
USCGC Stratton looks more like a light frigate at 4500 tons with a 3" deck gun and 20mm CIWS.
Maybe a little over-kill for a Coast Guard Cutter?
8 posted on 08/19/2019 5:08:47 AM PDT by Psalm 73 ("I will now proceed to entangle the entire area".)
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To: Psalm 73; All

{with a 3” deck gun and 20mm CIWS.
Maybe a little over-kill for a Coast Guard Cutter?}

[___________________________________________]

Name:
USCGC Midgett (WMSL-757)
Awarded:
31 March 2015
Builder:
Huntington Ingalls Industries, Pascagoula, Mississippi
Cost:
$499.76 Million[1]
Laid down:
30 January 2017
Launched: {Built in 10 Months!!!}
22 November 2017
Sponsored by:
Jazania H. O’Neal[2]
Christened:
09 December 2017[3]
Identification:
MMSI number: 303868000
Callsign: NCJM
Motto:
“A Legacy of Bravery”[4]
Status:
Special Commission
Badge:
USCGC MIDGETT (WMSL 757)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:USCGC_MIDGETT_(WMSL_757)_Crest.jpg

General characteristics
Displacement:
4500 LT
Length:
418 ft (127 m)
Beam:
54 ft (16 m)
Draft:
22.5 ft (6.9 m)
Propulsion:
Combined diesel and gas
Speed:
28 knots
Range:
12,000 nm
Endurance:
60 to 90-day patrol cycles
Complement:
148
Sensors and
processing systems:
AN/SPS-75 Air Search Radar
SPQ-9B Fire Control Radar
AN/SPS-79 Surface Search Radar
Electronic warfare
& decoys:
AN/SLQ-32 Electronic Warfare System
2 x Mk-36 SRBOC/ 2 x Mk-53 NULKA countermeasures chaff/rapid decoy launcher
Armament:
1 x Mk-110 57mm Naval Gun System (variant of the Bofors 57 mm gun)
1 × 20 mm Block 1B Phalanx Close-In Weapons System
4 × .50 caliber machine guns
2 × M240B 7.62 mm machine guns
Armor:
Ballistic protection for main gun
Aircraft carried:
2 x MH-65C Dolphin MCH, or 1 x MH-65C Dolphin MCH and 2 x sUAS[5]


22 posted on 08/20/2019 2:27:16 AM PDT by mabarker1 ((Congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!!))
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