Biddle Characteristics

(Decommissioning  brochure)

Displacement

8,800 tons  

Length

547 feet 

Beam

55 feet 

Max Speed

32 knots 

Power Plant

4 - 1200 psi boilers; 2 geared turbines,
2 shafts; 85,000 shaft horsepower 

1 - 500 KW Fairbanks-Morse Diesel Generator

1 – 750 KW Solar Gas Turbine Generator

Aircraft

1 - SH-2F LAMPS Mk 1 Helicopter

Armament

Standard Missiles SM-2 (ER)
8 - Harpoon (from two quad launchers)
2 - 20mm Vulcan Phalanx CIWS
6 - MK 46 torpedoes (from 2 triple tube mounts)
1 - 5-inch/54 caliber MK 42 gun

Radar

AN/SPS-48E 3D Air Search Radar
AN/SPS-49(V)5 Long Range Air Search Radar

AN/SPS-67 Long Range Surface Search Radar

AN/SPS-64 Short Range Surface Search Radar

Sonar

SQS-26BX bow mounted

Fire Control

1 Mk 14 weapon direction system
1 Mk 68 GFCS with SPG-53F radar
2 AN/SPG-55B radar. 

Complement

485 enlisted, 30 officers