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USS Preble cruising in the Arabian Sea |
| lign ="center" style="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy no-repeat scroll top left;"|Career | align ="center" style="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy no-repeat scroll top left;"| |
| rdered: | 13 December 1996 |
| aid down: | 22 June 2000 |
| aunched: | 1 June 2001 |
| ommissioned: | 9 November 2002 |
| ecommissioned: | |
| tatus: | |
| truck: | |
| olspan="2" align="center" style="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy no-repeat scroll top left;"|General Characteristics |
| isplacement: | 9,200 tons |
| ength: | 509 ft 6 in (155.30 m) |
| eam: | 66 ft (20 m) |
| raught: | 31 ft (9 m) |
| ropulsion: | 4 × General Electric LM2500-30 gas turbines, 2 shafts, 100,000 hp (75 MW) |
| peed: | 30 knots (56 km/h) |
| ange: | |
| omplement: | 380 officers and enlisted |
| rmament: | One 32-cell, one 64-cell Mk 41 vertical launch systems, 96 RIM-67 SM-2, BGM-109 Tomahawk or RUM-139 VL-Asroc, missiles
one 5 inch (100 mm), two 25 mm, four 12.7 mm guns
Two Mk 46 triple torpedo tubes |
| ircraft: | Two SH-60 Sea Hawk helicopters |
| otto: | Intrepid Patriot |