1 × 29-cell, 1 × 61-cell (90 total cells) Mk 41 vertical launching system (VLS):
RIM-66M surface-to-air missile
RIM-156 surface-to-air missile
RIM-161 anti-ballistic missile
BGM-109 Tomahawk cruise missile
RUM-139 vertical launch ASROC
Torpedoes:
2 × Mark 32 triple torpedo tubes:
Mark 46 lightweight torpedo
Mark 50 lightweight torpedo
Mark 54 lightweight torpedo
Aircraft carried
1 × Sikorsky MH-60R
USS Higgins (DDG-76) is a United States Navy Arleigh Burke-class destroyer (Flight II). Higgins is the 26th ship of her class, and the 15th of the class to be built by Bath Iron Works of Bath, Maine. Construction began on 14 November 1996 and she was launched and christened on 4 October 1997. She was commissioned at a ceremony in Port Everglades, Florida on 24 April 1999. She is part of Destroyer Squadron 15 within the Seventh Fleet, and is homeported at United States Fleet Activities Yokosuka in Yokosuka, Japan.
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