Supply class
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USNS Supply in 2006
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| Class overview | |
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| Builders: | National Steel and Shipbuilding Company, San Diego, California |
| Operators: |
 United States Navy
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| Preceded by: | Sacramento class |
| Succeeded by: | N/A |
| Completed: | 4 |
| Active: | 2 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | Fast combat support ship |
| Displacement: | 48,800 long tons (49,600 t) |
| Length: | 754 ft (229.8 m) (overall) |
| Beam: | 107 ft (32.6 m) (extreme beam) |
| Draft: | 39 ft (11.9 m) |
| Propulsion: | four General Electric LM2500 gas turbines; two shafts; 105,000 hp (78 MW) |
| Speed: | 25 knots (46 km/h) |
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The Supply-class fast combat support ships are a class of four United States Navy supply ships used to refuel, rearm, and restock ships in the United States Navy in both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
These are the only US Navy resupply ships able to keep up with the strike groups, but due to their cost to operate the Navy intends to retire them starting in 2014. The Supply-class ships are built to military combatant standards and are shock hardened.
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