USS Kidd (DDG-100)

History
USS Kidd on 18 May 2011
United States
Name	Kidd
Namesake	Rear Admiral Isaac C. Kidd
Ordered	6 March 1998
Builder	Ingalls Shipbuilding
Laid down	29 April 2004
Launched	22 January 2005
Commissioned	9 June 2007
Homeport	Everett
Identification	MMSI number: 368011000 Callsign: NKID Hull number: DDG-100
Motto	On To Victory
Status	in active service
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General characteristics
Class & type	Arleigh Burke-class destroyer
Displacement	9,200 tons
Length	509 ft 6 in (155.30 m)
Beam	66 ft (20 m)
Draft	31 ft (9.4 m)
Propulsion	4 × General Electric LM2500-30 gas turbines, 2 shafts, 100,000 shp (75 MW)
Speed	30+ knots (55+ km/h)
Complement	380 officers and enlisted
Armament	Guns: 1 × 5-inch (127 mm)/62 mk 45 mod 4 (lightweight gun) 1 × 20 mm (0.8 in) Phalanx CIWS 2 × 25 mm (0.98 in) Mk 38 machine gun system 4 × 0.50 inches (12.7 mm) caliber guns Lasers: Optical Dazzling Interdictor, Navy (ODIN) Missiles: 1 × 32-cell, 1 × 64-cell (96 total cells) Mk 41 vertical launching system (VLS): RIM-66M surface-to-air missile RIM-156 surface-to-air missile RIM-174A standard ERAM RIM-161 anti-ballistic missile RIM-162 ESSM (quad-packed) BGM-109 Tomahawk cruise missile RUM-139 vertical launch ASROC Torpedoes: 2 × Mark 32 triple torpedo tubes: Mark 46 lightweight torpedo Mark 50 lightweight torpedo Mark 54 lightweight torpedo
Aircraft carried	2 × MH-60R Seahawk helicopters

USS Kidd (DDG-100) is an Arleigh Burke-class (Flight IIA) Aegis guided missile destroyer in the United States Navy. She is the third Navy ship named after Rear Admiral Isaac C. Kidd, who was on board Arizona during the attack on Pearl Harbor, and was the first American flag officer to die in World War II. The ship is part of Destroyer Squadron 1 of Carrier Strike Group 1 which is currently headed by the Nimitz-class nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70). USS Kidd is the only active ship in the Navy officially allowed to fly the Jolly Roger.