Notes: Name: USS Stethem
Namesake: Robert Stethem
Ordered: 22 February 1990
Builder: Ingalls Shipbuilding
Laid down: 11 May 1993
Launched: 17 June 1994
Commissioned: 21 October 1995
Homeport: Yokosuka, Japan
Status: in active service, as of 2012
Badge: USS Stethem DDG-63 Crest.png
Displacement: Light: approx. 6,800 long tons (6,900 t)
Full: approx. 8,900 long tons (9,000 t)
Length: 505 ft (154 m)
Beam: 66 ft (20 m)
Draft: 31 ft (9.4 m)
Propulsion: 4 General Electric LM2500-30 gas turbines, two shafts, 100,000 total shaft horsepower (75 MW)
Speed: >30 knots (56 km/h)
Range: 4,400 nautical miles at 20 knots, (8,100 km at 37 km/h)
Complement: 33 Officers
38 Chief Petty Officers
210 Enlisted Personnel

Sensors and processing systems:
AN/SPY-1D 3D Radar
AN/SPS-67(V)2 Surface Search Radar
AN/SPS-73(V)12 Surface Search Radar
AN/SQS-53C Sonar Array
AN/SQR-19 Tactical Towed Array Sonar
AN/SQQ-28 LAMPS III Shipboard System

Electronic warfare and decoys:
AN/SLQ-32(V)2 Electronic Warfare System
AN/SLQ-25 Nixie Torpedo Countermeasures
MK 36 MOD 12 Decoy Launching System
AN/SLQ-39 CHAFF Buoys

Armament:
1 29 cell, 1 61 cell Mk 41 vertical launch systems with 90 RIM-156 SM-2, BGM-109 Tomahawk or RUM-139 VL-Asroc missiles
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
2 Mk 32 triple torpedo tubes
Aircraft carried: 1 SH-60 Sea Hawk helicopter can be embarked
Motto: Steadfast And Courageous
Nickname: "The Steel Worker"