USS Kansas City (LCS-22)
For other ships with the same name, see USS Kansas City.
.jpg) Sister ship USS Independence | |
| History | |
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 United States | |
| Name: | Kansas City |
| Namesake: | Kansas City, Missouri |
| Awarded: | 29 December 2010[1] |
| Builder: | Austal USA[1] |
| Status: | Under construction |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Independence-class littoral combat ship |
| Displacement: | 2,307 metric tons light, 3,104 metric tons full, 797 metric tons deadweight |
| Length: | 127.4 m (418 ft) |
| Beam: | 31.6 m (104 ft) |
| Draft: | 14 ft (4.27 m) |
| Propulsion: | 2× gas turbines, 2× diesel, 4× waterjets, retractable Azimuth thruster, 4× diesel generators |
| Speed: | 40 knots (74 km/h; 46 mph)+, 47 knots (54 mph; 87 km/h) sprint |
| Range: | 4,300 nautical miles (8,000 km; 4,900 mi) at 20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph)+ |
| Capacity: | 210 tonnes |
| Complement: | 40 core crew (8 officers, 32 enlisted) plus up to 35 mission crew |
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USS Kansas City (LCS-22) will be an Independence-class littoral combat ship of the United States Navy. She will be the second ship to be named for Kansas City, the largest city in the U.S. state of Missouri.[2]
Kansas City is currently being built in Mobile, Alabama by Austal USA.[3]
References
- 1 2 "Kansas City (LCS-22)". Naval Vessel Register. Retrieved 25 July 2016.
- ↑ "Secretary of the Navy Names Littoral Combat Ship" (Press release). U.S. Department of Defense. 20 July 2015. NR-288-15. Retrieved 11 September 2016.
- ↑ "Austal's Litoral Combat Ship 10 Completes Acceptance Trials" (Press release). Austal. 24 November 2016. Retrieved 25 November 2016.
- This article includes information collected from the Naval Vessel Register, which, as a U.S. government publication, is in the public domain. The entry can be found here.
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