Arleigh Burke (DDG 51) - Naval Cruise Book

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june 22, 1991 ..... june 26, 1991 ..... july 4, 1991 .... july 10, 1991 ....... August 16-29, 1991 ..... August 17, 1991 .... August 18, 1991 ...... August 19-22, 1991 ..... August 26-28, 1991 ..... September 3, 1991 .... September 8, 1991 .... September 9, 1991 .... September 19-21, 1991 .... September 22-23, 1991 September 24, 1991 ..... September 25-26, 1991 .... October 2, 1991 .... October 10, 1991 ..... October 24, 1991 ..... November 12- 14, 1991 .... November 19, 1991 ..... December 9- 13, 1991 ...... january 13-February 15, 1992 ....... Operational Evalu February 22-March 19, 1992 MILESTONES ARLEIGH BURKE departs Bath Iron Works Arrives Naval Station Norfolk Va Commissioning at Town Point Park Arrives at Yorktown Naval Weapons Station for ordnance onloading Departs for Underway Replenishment Ship Qualification Trials and Cruise Missile Qualifications enroute to Port Everglades Florida Transited Hurricane Bob Arrives in Port Everglades Weapon System Accuracy Trials . . . .Acoustic Trials Begins Combat Systems Qualification Trials and Development Testing Arrives at Naval Station Roosevelt Road Puerto Rico for additional ordnance onload Underway for two weeks of anti submarine and air to surface warfare firing exercises Anti-submarine warfare exercises with USS BA TON ROUGE on the underwater test range off Puerto Rico Completed Naval Gunfire Support range qualifications Achieved a score of 700 Met with HMS AMAZON of the Royal Navy Integrated Combat Systems Exercise with the USS GETTYSBURG Successfully fired Harpoon missiles . . . .Completed missile firing events Arrives in Norfolk marking the completion of CSSQT Operational Propulsion Plant Exam completed with above average gr8Cl6'S Successful Tomahawk missile firing Final Con tract Trials Pre-Post Shakedown Avail bl March 19, 1992 ...........,. .... U nderw P March 20, Fadm fy to .ost Shakedown Availability at Bath Iron Works Portland y or an intense four month shi t - , . . pyard industrial eriod following Ship s first nine to 12 months in service p 7992 ..... .... A rrives at Bath lron Works ' .ation a non stop four week test of the ship s combat systems against air, surface and subsurface threats

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COMB QUA ICSSQ T24 the the ship a series of tests of its weapons system they worked as designed. The e exceeded all expectations. Th anti-submarine warfare suite, gun mount, anti-1 warfare and Phalanx Systems were all and emerged victorious. In the end, CSSQT was only a preview of the AEGI5 Destroyer Operational Evaluation.