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USS Truxtun (DDG-103) is an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer currently in service with the United States Navy. She is named for American Naval hero, Commodore Thomas Truxtun (1755–1822), one of the first six commanders appointed by George Washington to the newly formed U.S. Navy. She is the sixth U.S. naval warship to bear his name. Truxtun's keel was laid down on 11 April 2005. During construction at Ingalls Shipbuilding, Pascagoula, Mississippi, she suffered a major electrical fire on 20 May 2006, engulfing two levels and causing damage estimated to be worth millions of dollars. She was launched on 17 April 2007, then christened on 2 June 2007 in Pascagoula, with Truxtun descendants Susan Scott Martin and Carol Leigh Roelker serving as sponsors, and commissioned on 25 April 2009 in Charleston, South Carolina. As of July 2020 the ship is part of Destroyer Squadron 26 based out of Naval Station Norfolk Ship history In 2012, the US Navy contracted with L3 Technologies to develop a fuel-efficient hybrid electric drive train for the Flight IIA Arleigh Burke guided missile destroyers. The system proposed used a pre-existing quill drive on the reduction gearbox, allowing an electric motor to drive the ships up to 13 knots. Truxtun was fitted with the permanent magnet motor system in 2012, under a research and development contract with General Atomics. In March 2018, the US Navy announced that the trial program to install hybrid electric drives in 34 destroyers would be cancelled leaving Truxtun as the only ship so fitted. On 6 March 2014, Truxtun departed Greece and sailed to the Black Sea to conduct training with the Romanian and Bulgarian navies. On 5 March 2014, Turkish authorities gave permission to a U.S. Navy warship to pass through the Bosphorus Straits. The deployment of Truxtun, along with sister ship Donald Cook), to the Black Sea was intended as a "strategic reassurance" for former Soviet republics and satellite states concerned about the annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation 1 × 5 inch (127 mm)/62 caliber Mk 45 Mod 4 naval gun 2 × 25 mm Mk 38 Autocannons 4 × .50 cal (12.7 mm) machine guns 1 × 20 mm Phalanx CIWS 2 × Mk 32 triple torpedo tubes for Mk 46 torpedoes 96-cell Mk 41 VLS for: RIM-66 Standard Missile 2 BGM-109 Tomahawk RUM-139 VL-ASROC missile

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USS Truxtun (DDG-103) is an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer currently in service with the United States Navy. She is named for American Naval hero, Commodore Thomas Truxtun (1755–1822), one of the first six commanders appointed by George Washington to the newly formed U.S. Navy. She is the sixth U.S. naval warship to bear his name. Truxtun's keel was laid down on 11 April 2005. During construction at Ingalls Shipbuilding, Pascagoula, Mississippi, she suffered a major electrical fire on 20 May 2006, engulfing two levels and causing damage estimated to be worth millions of dollars. She was launched on 17 April 2007, then christened on 2 June 2007 in Pascagoula, with Truxtun descendants Susan Scott Martin and Carol Leigh Roelker serving as sponsors, and commissioned on 25 April 2009 in Charleston, South Carolina. As of July 2020 the ship is part of Destroyer Squadron 26 based out of Naval Station Norfolk Ship history In 2012, the US Navy contracted with L3 Technologies to develop a fuel-efficient hybrid electric drive train for the Flight IIA Arleigh Burke guided missile destroyers. The system proposed used a pre-existing quill drive on the reduction gearbox, allowing an electric motor to drive the ships up to 13 knots. Truxtun was fitted with the permanent magnet motor system in 2012, under a research and development contract with General Atomics. In March 2018, the US Navy announced that the trial program to install hybrid electric drives in 34 destroyers would be cancelled leaving Truxtun as the only ship so fitted. On 6 March 2014, Truxtun departed Greece and sailed to the Black Sea to conduct training with the Romanian and Bulgarian navies. On 5 March 2014, Turkish authorities gave permission to a U.S. Navy warship to pass through the Bosphorus Straits. The deployment of Truxtun, along with sister ship Donald Cook), to the Black Sea was intended as a "strategic reassurance" for former Soviet republics and satellite states concerned about the annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation 1 × 5 inch (127 mm)/62 caliber Mk 45 Mod 4 naval gun 2 × 25 mm Mk 38 Autocannons 4 × .50 cal (12.7 mm) machine guns 1 × 20 mm Phalanx CIWS 2 × Mk 32 triple torpedo tubes for Mk 46 torpedoes 96-cell Mk 41 VLS for: RIM-66 Standard Missile 2 BGM-109 Tomahawk RUM-139 VL-ASROC missile