USS Hopper

	USS Hopper at Pearl Harbor on 20 May 2016
History
United States
Name	Hopper
Namesake	Grace Hopper
Ordered	8 April 1992
Builder	Bath Iron Works
Laid down	23 February 1995
Launched	6 January 1996
Commissioned	6 September 1997
Homeport	Pearl Harbor
Identification	MMSI number: 667197000; Callsign: NHOP; ; Hull number: DDG-70;
Motto	Aude Et Effice; (Dare And Do);
Status	in active service
Badge
General characteristics
Class and type	Arleigh Burke-class destroyer
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	59 ft (18 m)
Draft	31 ft (9.4 m)
Propulsion	2 × Shafts
Speed	>30 knots (56 km/h; 35 mph)
Range	4,400 nautical miles at 20 knots; (8,100 km at 37 km/h);
Complement	33 commissioned officers; 38 chief petty officers; 210 enlisted personnel;
Sensors and ; processing systems	AN/SPY-1D 3D radar (Flight I,II,IIa); AN/SPY-6 AESA 3D radar (Flight III); AN/SPS-67(V)2 surface-search radar; AN/SPS-73(V)12 surface-search radar; AN/SPG-62 fire-control radar; AN/SQS-53C sonar array; AN/SQR-19 tactical towed array sonar; AN/SQQ-28 LAMPS III shipboard system;
Electronic warfare ; & decoys	AN/SLQ-32(V)2 Electronic Warfare System; AN/SLQ-25 Nixie Torpedo Countermeasures; MK 36 MOD 12 Decoy Launching System; MK 53 Nulka Decoy Launching System; AN/SLQ-39 CHAFF Buoys;
Armament	1 × 29 cell, 1 × 61 cell Mk 41 vertical launching systems with 90 × RIM-156 SM-2, BGM-109 Tomahawk or RUM-139 VL-ASROC missiles; 2 x Mk 141 Harpoon Missile Launcher SSM; 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	2 Sikorsky MH-60R helicopters can be embarked

USS Hopper (DDG-70) is an Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer of the United States Navy, named for the pioneering computer scientist Rear Admiral Grace Hopper.^[1]

Hopper is only the second U.S. Navy warship to be named for a woman from the Navy's own ranks. This ship is the 20th destroyer of her class. USS Hopper (DDG-70) was the 11th ship of this class to be built at Bath Iron Works in Bath, Maine, and construction began on 23 February 1995. She was launched and christened on 6 January 1996. On 6 September 1997, she was commissioned in San Francisco outside of Silicon Valley with Commander Thomas D. Crowley in command.

Service history[]

Deployments[]

Hopper has participated in multiple deployments to East Asia and the Persian Gulf, including RIMPAC 98, three individual PACMEF deployments, an Expeditionary Strike Group deployment to the Persian Gulf in 2004, and a deployment to Southeast Asia in support of Cooperation Afloat Readiness and Training (CARAT) 2006. In addition, Hopper has been foremost in the field of Ballistic Missile Defense.^[2]

On 1 April 2002, Hopper departed for a six-month deployment to the North Persian Gulf.

On 12 November 2007, Hopper departed with the Tarawa Expeditionary Strike Group for a scheduled deployment to the Fifth Fleet and Seventh Fleet.^[3]

On 6 January 2008, Hopper was involved in an incident with five Iranian Revolutionary Guard gunboats. Hopper, the cruiser Port Royal and the frigate Ingraham were entering the Persian Gulf through the Strait of Hormuz when five Iranian boats approached them at high speed and in a threatening manner. The U.S. ships had been in the Arabian Sea searching for a sailor who had been missing from the Hopper for one day. The U.S. Navy said the Iranian boats made "threatening" moves toward the U.S. vessels, coming as close as 200 yards (180 m). The U.S. Navy received a radio transmission saying, "I am coming to you. You will explode after a few minutes." As the U.S. ships prepared to fire, the Iranians abruptly turned away, the U.S. officials said. Before leaving, the Iranians dropped white boxes into the water in front of the U.S. ships. The U.S. ships did not investigate the boxes.^[4]

Officials from the two nations differed on the severity of the incident. The Iranians claimed they were conducting normal maneuvers while American officials claimed that an imminent danger to American naval vessels existed.^[4]

On 15 April 2011, Hopper departed from Pearl Harbor on a deployment to Asia and the Middle East.^[5]

On 22 June 2014, Hopper, with her Aegis Weapon System, detected and tracked a test missile launched from the Reagan Test Site on Kwajalein Atoll using her onboard AN/SPY-1 radar, providing critical targeting data to a long-range ground-based interceptor (GBI) launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. GBI's protect the US from limited long-range ballistic missile attack.^[6]

In January 2018, Hopper performed a freedom of navigation cruise, sailing within 12 nautical miles of the disputed Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea. China, which has held the rocky outpost since seizing it from the Philippines in 2012, registered a protest on the grounds that the US Navy should have notified China in advance of its approach and had "violated China's sovereignty and security interests".^[7]

Coat of arms[]

Shield[]

The shield has a background of blue. In the center is a gold lion with red talons.

Crest[]

The crest consists of a lozenge with a silver star above the trident. Surrounding the lozenge is a wreath with lightning bolts stemming from the bottom. The crest is completed by the blue and gold framing.

Motto[]

The motto is written on a scroll of white with red trim.

The ships motto is "AUDE ET EFFICE" which can be translated to "DARE AND DO" within context of a command.^{[citation needed]}

Seal[]

The coat of arms in full color as in the blazon, upon a white background enclosed within a dark blue oval border edged on the outside with a gold rope and bearing the inscription "USS HOPPER" at the top and "DDG 70" in the base all gold.

References[]

This article includes information collected from the Naval Vessel Register, which, as a U.S. government publication, is in the public domain.

^ Cantrell, Mark (1 March 2014). "Amazing Grace, Rear Adm. Grace Hopper, USN, was a pioneer in computer science". Military Officer. 12 (3). Military Officers Association of America. pp. 52–55, 106. Retrieved 1 March 2014.
^ "USS Hopper DDG 70". U.S. Carriers. 10 April 2013. Retrieved 10 April 2013.
^ "Navy NewsStand – Eye on the Fleet". United States Navy. 12 November 2007. Archived from the original on 5 August 2012. Retrieved 6 December 2007.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b "Iranian boats 'harass' U.S. Navy, officials say". CNN. 7 January 2008. Retrieved 7 January 2008.
^ "USS Hopper Heads West for Deployment". US Navy. 15 April 2011. Archived from the original on 5 August 2012. Retrieved 15 February 2012.
^ "U.S. conducts successful missile intercept test in Pacific". US Air Force. 22 June 2014. Archived from the original on 2 July 2014. Retrieved 29 June 2014.
^ "China says U.S. warship violated its South China Sea sovereignty". Reuters. 20 January 2018.

External links[]

[1] Cantrell, Mark (1 March 2014). "Amazing Grace, Rear Adm. Grace Hopper, USN, was a pioneer in computer science". Military Officer. 12 (3). Military Officers Association of America. pp. 52–55, 106. Retrieved 1 March 2014.

[2] "USS Hopper DDG 70". U.S. Carriers. 10 April 2013. Retrieved 10 April 2013.

[3] "Navy NewsStand – Eye on the Fleet". United States Navy. 12 November 2007. Archived from the original on 5 August 2012. Retrieved 6 December 2007.

[iran-attack-4] Jump up to: ^a ^b "Iranian boats 'harass' U.S. Navy, officials say". CNN. 7 January 2008. Retrieved 7 January 2008.

[5] "USS Hopper Heads West for Deployment". US Navy. 15 April 2011. Archived from the original on 5 August 2012. Retrieved 15 February 2012.

[6] "U.S. conducts successful missile intercept test in Pacific". US Air Force. 22 June 2014. Archived from the original on 2 July 2014. Retrieved 29 June 2014.

[7] "China says U.S. warship violated its South China Sea sovereignty". Reuters. 20 January 2018.

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