1/700 Dragon Model DDG 62 USS Fitzgerald
Modeler Luqmanul Hakim
The new class Arleigh Burke-class destroyer in my collection stand bash. The USS Fitzgerald DDG 62 has been launch and commissioned in end of 1995. This destroyer has been named by the Veteran Navy William Charles Fitzgerald during Vietnam War. This DDG has been equipped with the latest 1 × 29 cell, 1 × 61 cell Mk 41 vertical launching systems with 90 × RIM-156 SM-2, BGM-109 Tomahawk or RUM-139 VL-ASROC missiles, 2 x Mk 141 Harpoon Missile Launcher SSM, 1 × Mark 45 5/54 in (127/54 mm), 2 × 25 mm chain gun, 4 × .50 caliber (12.7 mm) guns, 2 × 20 mm Phalanx CIWS and 2 × Mk 32 triple torpedo tubes.
The USS Fitzgerald also has been strengthen with AN/SPY-1D 3D Radar, AN/SPS-67(V)2 Surface Search Radar, AN/SPS-73(V)12 Surface Search Radar, AN/SPG-62 Fire Control Radar,AN/SQS-53C Sonar Array,AN/SQR-19 Tactical Towed Array Sonar,AN/SQQ-28 LAMPS III Shipboard System.
In early April 2004, it was announced that USS Fitzgerald would be one of fifteen destroyers and three cruisers which would be deployed to counter ballistic missile threats worldwide. She arrived in Yokosuka, Japan on 30 September 2004 to join the U.S. 7th Fleet after participating in a personnel exchange known as "Super Swap". 140 sailors from the destroyer USS O'Brien transferred to Fitzgerald and 95 of Fitzgerald’s sailors joined the decommissioning unit for O'Brien. She is now homeported at Yokosuka Naval Base in Yokosuka, Japan.
In March 2011, in company with the aircraft carrier Ronald Reagan, Fitzgerald was deployed off northeastern Honshu, Japan to assist with relief efforts after the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami.
On 16 November 2011, while docked in Manila, Philippines, Fitzgerald acted as the site where U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Philippine Foreign Affairs Secretary Albert del Rosario signed the Manila Declaration calling for multilateral talks to resolve maritime disputes and to mark the 60th anniversary of the American-Philippine Mutual Defense Treaty
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