USS Gary (FFG-51)

Career (US)
USS Gary (FFG-51)
Laid down:	18 December 1982
Launched:	19 November 1983
Commissioned:	17 November 1984
Status:	Active in service as of 2007
Homeport:	Yokosuka, Japan
General characteristics
Displacement:	4,100 tons (4,170 t) full load
Length:	453 ft (138.1 m), overall
Beam:	45 ft (13.7 m)
Draught:	22 ft (6.7 m)
Propulsion:	2 × General Electric LM2500-30 gas turbines generating 41,000 shp (31 MW) through a single shaft and variable pitch propeller
Speed:	29+ knots (54+ km/h)
Range:	5,000 nm (9,300 km) at 18 knots (33 km/h)
Complement:	15 officers and 190 enlisted, plus SH-60 LAMPS detachment of roughly six officer pilots and 15 enlisted maintainers
Sensors and processing systems:	AN/SPS-49 air-search radar AN/SPS-55 surface-search radar CAS and STIR fire-control radar AN/SQS-56 sonar.
Electronic warfare and decoys:	AN/SLQ-32
Armament:	One OTO Melara Mk 75 76 mm/62 caliber naval gun one Mk 13 Mod 4 single-arm launcher for \|Harpoon anti-ship missiles and SM-1MR Standard anti-ship/air missiles (40 round magazine) two Mk 32 triple-tube (324 mm) launchers for Mark 46 torpedoes one Vulcan Phalanx CIWS; four .50-cal (12.7 mm) machine guns. **However, the Mk 13 Mod 4 single-arm launcher has been removed (as with all other US Navy frigates) due to the weapons system becoming obsolete.
Aircraft carried:	2 × SH-60 LAMPS III helicopters
Motto:	"Freedom's Foremost Guardian"
Nickname:	"Two Guns"

USS Gary (FFG-51) is an Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigate in the United States Navy. She was named for Commander Donald A. Gary (1903–1977).

USS Gary (FFG51).

Gary is homeported at Naval Station San Diego, CA as of July 2007, when the USS McCampbell (DDG-85) replaced her at Yokosuka, Japan, and part of Destroyer Squadron 15 and the US Navy's Forward Deployed Naval Forces.

On 9 February 2007 USS Gary docked at the Cambodian port of Sihanoukville. It is the first time since the Vietnam War that an American warship has docked in Cambodia.

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