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USS Porter (DDG-78)- Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer. Built by Ingalls Shipbuilding and assigned to Naval Station Norfolk, Virginia. Assigned to the 2nd Squadron, US Atlantic Fleet.

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While moving to the location of the US Fifth Fleet in Bahrain on the night of August 11-12, 2012, the destroyer USS Porter collided in Persian Gulf near the Strait of Hormuz with the Japanese oil tanker Otowasan, sailing under the flag of Panama. As noted on the official website of the American Navy, the ship has not lost its ability to move independently. The collision occurred around 1:00 am local time on August 12, 2012.

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Photos of the American military destroyer USS Porter DDG 78, which entered the Black Sea on June 6, has appeared on the Internet. A vessel that protects against air attacks equipped on it anti-aircraft missile system, intends to conduct operations to “ensure security and stability in the region.” Does "Porter" have any secret goals other than an obvious show of power? We asked a military expert, reserve colonel Viktor Murakhovsky about this.

- Is the destroyer equipped with any special means for reconnaissance?

Yes. But there is no secret here, these means are all standard - for example, devices for electronic and hydroacoustic reconnaissance.

With their help, can the United States learn anything new for itself in the Black Sea - for example, about our Black Sea Fleet?

I think no. For such purposes it is necessary to use, for example, reconnaissance aircraft. The destroyer's equipment is not so advanced.

Do our authorities have the right to prevent the American military equipment in the waters of the Black Sea?

No, they don't. This right is conditional international convention Montreux, which stipulates the conditions and terms of stay of ships of non-Black Sea states in the Black Sea. (According to this convention, ships from non-Black Sea countries can stay in the Black Sea for 21 days).

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During its history, the destroyer USS Porter has been involved in an accident. On the night of August 11-12, 2012, the ship collided in the Persian Gulf with the Japanese oil tanker Otowasan, flying the flag of Panama. True, according to the American military, the accident was not too serious: the USS Porter did not lose its ability to move independently.

"Porter" is permanently deployed in Spain, it is equipped with controlled missile systems- Tomahawk missiles and the Aegis missile defense system.

The destroyer itself is of the Arleigh Burke class. It is curious that another ship of this type, the McFaul, has already caused a political resonance in Russia. August 24, 2008, 11 days after the end of hostilities in South Ossetia, "McFaul" entered the Georgian port and the main naval base of the Batumi Navy. The US military claimed that the destroyer delivered 55 tons of humanitarian cargo to Georgia. However, the Russian military expressed doubts about whether the ship delivered only humanitarian cargo to Georgia.

But these are battleships - the most powerful artillery ships, and their fate is known to everyone who was even more or less interested naval history to people. Yes, not even interested at all.
There were also less famous ships in history with no less interesting destinies. For example, the Fletcher-class destroyer USS William D Porter (DD-579) got into it, and how. But I won’t immediately reveal the details, people who know will already understand what it’s about, and for the rest, I think, it won’t be very interesting to read “the killer is a butler” on the first page.
William D Porter was the 134th Fletcher-class destroyer built, the largest in history. It was built at the Consolidated Steel Corporation shipyard in Orange, Texas and entered service on July 6, 1943 and was in service until November. combat training in Norfolk. The crew, with the exception of the captain (Lieutenant Commander, equivalent to our Lieutenant Commander, William Walter) and a few of the crew, were as green as the ship.
By November, the command recklessly considered that the ship's crew was ready for their first combat campaign. And what a trip! The Porter was not to be escorted to Europe by some ordinary convoy, no! Franklin Delano Roosevelt himself was heading to Morocco to fly from there to attend conferences, first in Cairo and then in Tehran. For greater safety vehicle the choice for the president was not comfortable a cruise ship and the most modern US battleship is USS Iowa (BB-61).
So, on Sunday November 12, 1943, the Porter, nicknamed the Wille Dee, set sail from Norfolk to rendezvous with the Iowa, two escort carriers and two more destroyers, but the first obstacle awaited her even before leaving the harbor. A completely material obstacle in the form of a sistership destroyer that turned up inopportunely along the way. When leaving the pier, the ships collided. The Willie Dee's anchor slid across the deck of the stricken destroyer, demolishing lifelines, life rafts, a small boat, and more. ship equipment, inopportunely turned up under the paws. The Porter itself escaped with scratches at anchor and, briefly apologizing, hurried to meet with the Iowa. I don’t know if anyone on board the destroyer thought this was a bad sign, but, having heard a lot about superstition, I assume so. So, these superstitious people were absolutely right.
The next day, Willie Dee, which had connected with the Iowa, met with a storm - quite a common thing for the North Atlantic. No one intended to stay at sea longer than necessary, but this weather was very good for submarines, and therefore the convoy average speed wrote out anti-submarine zigzags, signalmen on the bridges vigilantly scanned the horizon and in general everyone was on edge. The convoy's mission was completely, absolutely secret, its purpose was hidden until the last moment, so the order to maintain complete radio silence seemed completely natural and correct. And in this atmosphere of general paranoia, an explosion was heard. A high column of water shot up behind the Porter's stern. What is this? An exploding torpedo? A depth charge dropped on a submarine? In any case, this is not without reason. The destroyers began searching for the submarine and continued to search for it until “Willy Dee” shouted “We did it.” As it turned out, the next wave washed away a depth charge with an installed fuse from the stern of the ship, and it exploded right behind the stern of the ship, washing away everything that was poorly secured from the quarterdeck.
Shortly after this, another large wave hit the ship. She washed a sailor off the deck, who could not be saved. The matter did not end there: the water took with it part of the lifelines and life rafts. Moreover, water flooded one of the boiler rooms, causing the destroyer to slow down. When Chief of Naval Operations Ernest J. King, who was aboard the Iowa, learned of the problems of the trailing Willie Dee, he expressed his disapproval to Captain Walter. In addition, he had to report to the formation commander every hour on the condition of the ship. After such a thrashing, Captain Walter promised that the crew would intensively engage in combat training the entire time the ship had to spend at sea.
The next morning was calm and sunny. The formation took place west of Bermuda and the President asked for a demonstration of repelling an air attack. "Iowa" released Balloons, which were supposed to serve as targets for anti-aircraft gunners. Captain Walter and his crew watched the fireworks from a distance of six kilometers. They had something to look at: according to eyewitnesses, about a hundred guns of various calibers were firing at the balls. But the Porter team wanted to join in the fun too! Finally, Captain Walter had a chance to restore his reputation: several balls missed by the Iowa's anti-aircraft gunners flew into the range of the Willie Dee's guns. Immediately the anti-aircraft gunners were sent to combat posts and began shooting at the balls.
The second item on the program was a demonstration of a torpedo attack. The destroyers were supposed to simulate firing torpedoes at the Iowa. In this case, the only difference from live firing is that before firing, propelling charges (primers) are removed from the tubes of torpedo tubes, which is what torpedoists Leighton Dawson and Tony Fazio did. And for training, a target was needed, and there was no better target within a radius of tens of miles than the Iowa, large and clumsy. The attack position was taken, the data for firing was ready, all that remained was to command “Fire”. Commands came from the bridge: “Fire once!” Fire two! “Fire three” did not follow: after the command “Fire two,” a characteristic hiss was heard, and the torpedo carcass flopped into the water at the side of the destroyer. During these seconds, many of the crew had more gray hair.
It only took a couple of minutes for the torpedo to reach the Iowa. Chaos began on the bridge, orders replaced each other, sometimes being completely opposite to the previous ones. At first, the message about the torpedo was transmitted to the Iowa by a light signal apparatus, but an inexperienced signalman mixed up everything, and the transmitted message said that the torpedo was coming from the Iowa. Another message was sent, this time it said that "Willie Dee" had given "full back." Realizing that the next message will not be better than the first two (and time was slipping away like sand through our fingers), Captain Walter gave the order to break radio silence. The Porter's radio operator called the Iowa: "Lev, Lev, turn right!" The radio operator of the Iowa, surprised to hear someone, calmly clarified who it was and what the hell he was doing on the air: “Identify yourself and repeat, where is the submarine?” The response from Willie Dee was not much more coherent than the previous message: “Torpedo in the water! Leo, turn right! Anxiety! Leo, turn right! To the right!
But there was no response from the Iowa to this message, because at the same seconds one of the signalmen noticed the “fish” and shouted: “Torpedo on the starboard side! This is not a drill! Torpedo on the starboard side! President Roosevelt asked that his carriage be brought closer to the side so as not to miss anything from the performance.
"Iowa" began to turn to the right, and her anti-aircraft guns began to fire at the torpedo. The combat alarm sounded and the sailors ran to their posts. Soon some of them were able to see the approaching torpedo. The ship tilted so hard to the left in a desperate turn that Roosevelt's bodyguards had to hold his stroller, and one of them even pulled out a pistol, intending to shoot at the torpedo as it came closer. But this was not required: Iowa successfully dodged the torpedo, and it exploded in the wake. Later, Roosevelt left the following entry about this in his diary: “There was firing practice on Monday. The Porter fired a torpedo at us by mistake. We saw her - she missed by a thousand feet."
Finally, the Porter's crew was able to catch their breath, but for them it was not over yet. The Iowa returned to duty and trained its guns on the destroyer that had fired at the President. The formation commander personally broke radio silence, wanting to know who was responsible for the torpedo. Captain Walter's response was: “I am, sir. We are responsible." Walter assured Iowa that it was just an accident.
The convoy continued on its way to Africa, but the Willie Dee was ordered to the port of Hamilton in Bermuda. There he was met by heavily armed Marines, who took the entire crew under arrest, to the last man - the only case in the history of the American fleet! The crew was interrogated to find out what it was? Just an accident or part of a larger conspiracy aimed at disrupting the conferences? After several days of interrogation, torpedoman third class Leighton Dawson admitted that it was he who forgot to remove the primer from torpedo tube. After the device unexpectedly fired, Dawson panicked and threw the used primer overboard.
So, there was no conspiracy, just the crew of the Porter screwed up big time. But "Willie D" almost killed the president, so someone had to be punished. The captain and several other officers were transferred to unmanned positions, and twenty-two-year-old Dawson was sentenced to fourteen years of hard labor, but Roosevelt stood up for him, and the torpedo operator was simply fired from the armed forces.
Similar mistakes happened to many ships manned by inexperienced crews, but the case of the Porter became perhaps the most famous. The ship received the apt nickname “The stupid republican”.
After the crew returned to the ship, the command decided to send the “Republican” somewhere where it could not do anything outstanding. On December 24, the Porter, having passed through the Panama Canal and refueled in San Francisco, arrived at the port of Dutch Harbor on the island of Unalaksha, one of the Aleutian Islands. The patrols were interspersed with training, and during one of the rare breaks, a sailor who returned from leave drunk decided that he wanted to shoot from big guns"Willy Dee." And he did it before anyone could stop him. A five-inch shell landed exactly in the base commander's yard, bringing some excitement to the party taking place there, to which officers and their wives were invited. Fortunately, no one was hurt, but the fleet was once again convinced that it was worth staying away from the Willie Dee.
Porter spent January 1944 in the Philippines, repelling raids Japanese aviation, and in March 1945 went to Okinawa. He was covering landing operations, provided air defense and anti-aircraft defense for large ships. From April 1 to May 5, Willie Dee fired 8,500 main-caliber shells. He shot down several Japanese planes and three American ones, and while repelling one of the attacks, he so riddled the DD-522 Luce sistership that it raised the signal “Don’t shoot at us, we are also Republicans.”
On June 10, 1945, Porter was at the radar picket awaiting a shift. At 8.15 in the morning, “Val”, which came literally out of nowhere, dived onto the ship. The Americans already knew well who kamikazes were, and “Porter” fought back as best he could. It almost ended in success: the plane fell into the water before reaching the side of the ship. But the speed of the “Val” was so great that it, by inertia, passed under water all the way to the “Willy Dee” and exploded right under the keel. Water went into the engine and boiler rooms, the ship was left without electricity and without the means to fight for survivability. For three hours the team tried unsuccessfully to save Willie Dee. The captain gave the order to abandon the ship twelve minutes before it capsized and sank.

The American guided-missile destroyer USS Porter DDG-78 entered the port of Odessa on the morning of Sunday, July 8. At 10:30 he moored at the 16th berth of the marine terminal.

The ship will take part in the annual Sea Breeze naval exercise. Let us note that several months ago, the Porter carried out a combat mission in the Mediterranean Sea: Tomahawk cruise missiles were launched from its board at Syrian infrastructure facilities.

The guided-missile destroyer USS Porter (DDG-78) is the 28th ship of the Arleigh Burke class. Arleigh Burke") US Navy. The main armament of the destroyer is 90 missile launchers, which can contain anti-aircraft and anti-submarine missiles, as well as cruise missiles"Tomahawk". The ship's weapons are controlled by the Aegis system. In 2013, the ship was modernized, now it is capable of carrying SM-3 missiles designed to combat ballistic missiles and satellites in low Earth orbit.

The destroyer is named after the famous American dynasty naval officers, in particular Commander (Captain Second Rank) David Porter and his son, Admiral David Dixon Porter. The first distinguished himself during the Anglo-American War of 1812, the second was a superintendent naval academy USA (Annapolis) during civil war 1861-1865.

Main characteristics
Displacement 6,783 long tons, 8,915 long tons (gross)
Length 153.92 m (maximum), 142.3 m (waterline)
Width 20, 1 m, 18.0 m (at waterline)
Draft 9.4 m (with sonar), 7.3 m (without sonar)
No reservation
Engines 4 gas turbine units General Electric LM2500-30
Power 108,000 l. With.
Propulsion 2 screws
Speed ​​32 knots (maximum)
Cruising range 4400 miles at 20 knots.
Crew 337 people (including 23 officers)

Armament
Tactical strike weapons 2 Aegis launchers for 29 (bow) and 61 (stern) missile cells, respectively. In various combinations they can be armed with: Tomahawk missile launcher, RIM-66 SM-2 Standard-2 missile defense system, RUM-139 ASROC missile launcher
Artillery 1*1 127 mm. AU Mark 45. Mod. 3/54 cal., 600 rounds
Flak 2 6-barrel 20 mm. ZAU "Falanx"
Missile armament 2*4 Harpoon anti-ship missiles
up to 74 RIM-66 SM-2 "Standard-2" missiles
Anti-submarine weapons PLUR RUM-139 ASROC
Mine and torpedo weapons 2*3 324 mm. TA Mk. 32 (torpedoes Mk.46 and Mk.50)
Aviation group 1 helicopter SH-60 LAMPS, no hangar