VISIT OF U.S. NAVY SHIP

The U.S. Navy ship, USS San Jacinto, will visit Sevastopol, Ukraine the first week of March. The San Jacinto, nicknamed the “San Jac,” and her crew will engage in combined training exercises with ships and sailors of the Ukrainian Navy. The exercises are to develop both navies’ ability to operate together against common threats such as trafficking of illegal weapons and drugs. The exercises will include practice in ship boarding and search operations similar to those already executed by both Navies when they participated together in Operation Active Endeavor, an ongoing multinational operation to provide security in the Mediterranean Sea. The exercises will also include combined flight operations in which pilots, air controllers, and ground crews of both navies will work together. Weather and other conditions permitting, this visit will include a landing of a Ukrainian helicopter on a U.S. Navy Ship.

USS SAN JACINTO CG-56 Ship Facts

Keel Laid: July 24, 1985
Launched: November 14, 1986
Commissioned: January 23, 1988
Builder: Ingalls Shipbuilding, West Bank, Pascagoula, Miss.
Propulsion system: Four General Electric LM 2500 gas turbine engines generating ~80,000 shaft horsepower with two controlled Reversible Pitch propellers
Length: 568 feet (173 meters)
Beam: 55 feet (16.8 meters)
Draft: 34 feet (10.2 meters)
Displacement: Approximately 9,600 tons full load
Speed: 30+ knots
Cost: About $1 billion
Aircraft: Two SH-60B Seahawk (LAMPS 3)
Armament:

• MK 7 AEGIS Weapon System
• MK 41 (VLS) Vertical Launch System for Standard missiles, Tomahawk, and ASROC
• 2 Mk 32 Triple Barrel Torpedo Launchers with Mk 46 torpedoes
• Eight Harpoon missiles
• Two Mk 45 5-inch/54 caliber lightweight guns
• Two Phalanx CIWS (Close In Weapon System)
• Two 25mm Bushmaster chain guns
• Six 50cal Browning machine guns