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USS Arleigh Burke (DDG-51)
The USS Arleigh Burke (DDG-51), the lead ship of her class, underway in the Mediterranean Sea in March 2003.
Class overview
Name: Arleigh Burke-class destroyer
Operators:  United States Navy
Preceded by: Kidd-class guided missile destroyer
Succeeded by: Zumwalt-class guided missile destroyer
Cost: US$1,843M (DDG 114–116, FY2011/12)[1]
Planned: 99
Completed: 74
Active: 74
General characteristics
Type: Destroyer
Displacement:

Fully loaded:

  • Flight I: 8,315 t (8,184 long tons; 9,166 short tons)
  • Flight II: 8,400 t (8,300 long tons; 9,300 short tons)
  • Flight IIA: 9,200 t (9,100 long tons; 10,100 short tons)
  • Flight III: 9,800 t (9,600 long tons; 10,800 short tons)[2]
Length: 505 ft (154 m) (Flights I and II)
509 ft (155 m) (Flight IIA)
Beam: 66 ft (20 m)
Draft: 30.5 ft (9.3 m)
Installed power: 3x Allison AG9140 Generators (2500kW each, 440V)
Propulsion: 4 General Electric LM2500-30 gas turbines each generating 27,000 shp (20,000 kW);
coupled to two shafts, each driving a five-bladed reversible controllable pitch propeller;
Total output: 108,000 shp (81,000 kW)
Speed: In excess of 30 kn (56 km/h; 35 mph)
Range: 4,400 nmi (8,100 km) at 20 kn (37 km/h; 23 mph)
Boats & landing
craft carried:		 2 Rigid hull inflatable boats
Complement:
  • Flight I: 303 total[3]
  • Flight IIA: 23 officers, 300 enlisted[4]
Sensors and
processing systems:
  • AN/SPY-1D 3D Radar
  • AN/SPS-67(V)2 Surface Search Radar
  • AN/SPS-73(V)12 Surface Search Radar
  • AN/SPG-62 Fire Control Radar
  • AN/SQS-53C Sonar Array
  • AN/SQR-19 Tactical Towed Array Sonar
  • AN/SQQ-28 LAMPS III Shipboard System
    • Electronic warfare
    & decoys:
  • AN/SLQ-32(V)2 Electronic Warfare System
  • AN/SLQ-25 Nixie Torpedo Countermeasures
  • MK 36 MOD 12 Decoy Launching System
  • AN/SLQ-39 CHAFF Buoys
    • Armament:


    Aircraft carried:
  • Flights I and II: None
  • Flight IIA onwards: up to two MH-60R Seahawk LAMPS III helicopters
    • Aviation facilities:
  • Flights I and II: Flight deck only, but LAMPS III electronics installed on landing deck for coordinated DDG-51/helo ASW operations
  • Flight IIA onwards: Flight deck and enclosed hangars for two MH-60R LAMPS III helicopters

    • The Arleigh Burke class of guided missile destroyers (DDGs) is the United States Navy's first class of destroyer built around the Aegis Combat System and the SPY-1D multi-function phased array radar. The class is named for Admiral Arleigh Burke, the most famous American destroyer officer of World War II, and later Chief of Naval Operations. The class leader, USS Arleigh Burke, was commissioned during Admiral Burke's lifetime.

    They were designed as multi-role destroyers[7] to fit the AAW (Anti-Aircraft Warfare) with their powerful Aegis radar and anti-aircraft missiles, ASW (Anti-submarine warfare), with their towed sonar array, anti-submarine rockets, and ASW helicopter, ASUW (Anti-surface warfare) with their Harpoon missile launcher, and strategic land strike using their Tomahawk missiles. Some versions of the class no longer have the towed sonar, or Harpoon missile launcher. Their hull and superstructure were designed to have a reduced radar cross section[8] The first ship of the class was commissioned on 4 July 1991. With the decommissioning of the last Spruance-class destroyer, Cushing, on 21 September 2005, the Arleigh Burke-class ships became the U.S. Navy's only active destroyers; the class has the longest production run for any postwar U.S. Navy surface combatant.[9] The Arleigh Burke class is planned to be the third most numerous class of destroyer to serve in the U.S. Navy, after the Fletcher and Gearing classes; besides the 62 vessels of this class (comprising 21 of Flight I, 7 of Flight II and 34 of Flight IIA) in service by 2013, up to a further 42 (of Flight III) have been envisaged.

    With an overall length of 505 feet (154 m) to 509 feet (155 m), displacement ranging from 8,315 to 9,200 tons, and weaponry including over 90 missiles, the Arleigh Burke-class ships are larger and more heavily armed than most previous ships classified as guided missile cruisers.[10]

    Characteristics[]

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    USS Cole and two other Arleigh Burke-class vessels docked in Norfolk, Virginia

    The Arleigh Burke class is among the largest destroyers built in the United States. Only the Spruance and Kidd classes were longer (563 ft). The Burke class are multi-mission ships with a "combination of... an advanced anti-submarine warfare system, land attack cruise missiles, ship-to-ship missiles, and advanced anti-aircraft missiles,"[11] The larger Ticonderoga-class ships were constructed on Spruance-class hullforms, but are designated as cruisers due to their radically different mission and weapons systems. The Burke class on the other hand were designed with a new, large, water-plane area-hull form characterized by a wide flaring which significantly improves sea-keeping ability. The hull form is designed to permit high speed in high sea states.[8]

    The Arleigh Burke's designers incorporated lessons learned from the Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruisers; with the Arleigh Burke class, the U.S. Navy also returned to all-steel construction. An earlier generation had combined a steel hull with an innovative superstructure made of lighter aluminum to reduce topweight, but the lighter metal proved vulnerable to cracking. Aluminum is also less fire-resistant than steel.[12] A 1975 fire aboard USS Belknap gutted her aluminum superstructure.[13] Battle damage to Royal Navy ships exacerbated by their aluminum superstructures during the 1982 Falklands War supported the decision to use steel. Another lesson from the Falklands War[11] led the navy to protect the ship's vital spaces with double-spaced steel armor (creating a buffer for modern rockets), and kevlar spall liners.

    The Ticonderoga-class cruisers were deemed too expensive to continue building and too difficult to further upgrade.[citation needed] The angled rather than traditional vertical surfaces and the tripod mainmast of the Arleigh Burke design are stealth techniques,[14][15] which make the ship more difficult to detect, in particular by anti-ship missiles.

    A Collective Protection System makes the Arleigh Burke class the first U.S. warships designed with an air-filtration system against nuclear, biological and chemical warfare.[16]

    Their Aegis radar differs from a traditional rotating radar that mechanically rotates 360 degrees for each "sweep" scan of the airspace which allows continual tracking of targets.[8] The system's computer control also allows centralization of the previously separate tracking and targeting functions.[8] The system is also resistant to electronic counter-measures.[8] Their standalone Harpoon anti-ship missile launchers give them an anti-ship capability with a range in excess of 64 nm.[8] " The 5"/54 caliber Mark 45 gun, in conjunction with the Mark 34 Gun Weapon System, is an anti-ship weapon which can also be used for close-in air contacts or to support forces ashore with Naval Gun-Fire Support (NGF), with a range of up to 20 miles and capable of firing 20 rounds per minute."[8] The class' Sparrow missile provide point defense against missiles and aircraft while the Standard Missile provides area anti-aircraft defense, additionally the ship has an electronics warfare suite that provides passive detection and decoy countermeasures.[8]

    The class' Light airborne multipurpose system, or LAMPS helicopter system improves the ship's capabilities against submarines and surface ships, a helicopter able to serve as a platform to monitor submarines and surface ships, and launch torpedoes and missiles against them, as well as being able to support ground assaults with machine guns and Hellfire anti-armor guided missiles.[17] The helicopters also serve in a utility role, able to perform ship replenishment, search and rescue, medical evacuation, communications relay, and naval gunfire spotting and controlling.

    Arleigh Burke-class destroyers have many combat systems. Burkes have the Navy's latest anti-submarine combat system with active sonar, a towed sonar array, and anti-submarine rockets.[8] They support strategic land strikes with their VLS launched Tomahawks.[8] They are able to detect anti-ship mines at a range of 1400 yards.[18]

    So vital has the Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMD) role of the class become that all ships of the class are being updated with BMD capability.[19][20] Burke production is being restarted in place of additional Zumwalt-class destroyers.[21]

    Development[]

    In 1980, the U.S. Navy initiated design studies with seven contractors. By 1983 the number of competitors had been reduced to three: Bath Iron Works, Todd Shipyards and Ingalls Shipbuilding.[16] On 3 April 1985 Bath Iron Works received a US$321.9 million contract to build the first of class, USS Arleigh Burke.[22] Gibbs & Cox was awarded the contract to be the lead ship design agent.[23] The total cost of the first ship was put at US$1.1 billion, the other US$778 million being for the ship's weapons systems.[22] She was laid down by the Bath Iron Works at Bath, Maine, on 6 December 1988, and launched on 16 September 1989 by Mrs. Arleigh Burke. The Admiral himself was present at her commissioning ceremony on 4 July 1991, held on the waterfront in downtown Norfolk, Virginia.

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    Profile of Flight IIA Arleigh Burke-class destroyer.

    The "Flight IIA Arleigh Burke" ships have several new features, beginning with the USS Oscar Austin (DDG-79). Among the changes are the addition of two hangars for ASW helicopters, and a new, longer Mark 45 Mod 4 5-inch/62-caliber naval gun (fitted on USS Winston S. Churchill (DDG-81) and later ships). Later Flight IIA ships starting with USS Mustin (DDG-89) have a modified funnel design that buries the funnels within the superstructure as a signature-reduction measure. TACTAS towed array sonar was omitted from Flight IIA ships and they also lack Harpoon missile launchers. Ships from DDG-68 to DDG-84 have AN/SLQ-32 antennas that resemble V3 configuration similar to those deployed on Ticonderoga-class cruisers, while the remainder have V2 variants externally resembling those deployed on some Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigates. V3 has an active electronic countermeasures component while V2 is passive only. A number of Flight IIA ships were constructed without a Phalanx CIWS because of the planned Evolved Sea Sparrow Missile, but later the Navy decided to retrofit all IIA ships to carry at least one Phalanx CIWS by 2013.[24]

    USS Pinckney, USS Momsen, USS Chung-Hoon, USS Nitze, USS James E. Williams and USS Bainbridge[25] have superstructure differences to accommodate the Remote Mine-hunting System (RMS). Mk 32 torpedo tubes were moved to the missile deck from amidships as well.

    Modernization[]

    The U.S. Navy has begun a modernization program for the Arleigh Burke class aimed at improving the gun systems on the ships in an effort to address congressional concerns over the retirement of the Iowa-class battleships. This modernization was to include an extension of the range of the 5-inch (127 mm) guns on the flight I Arleigh Burke-class destroyers (USS Arleigh Burke to USS Ross) with extended range guided munitions (ERGMs) that would have given the guns a range of 40 nautical miles (74 km).[26][27][28] However, the ERGM was cancelled in 2008.[29]

    The modernization program is designed to provide a comprehensive mid-life upgrade to ensure that the class remains effective. Reduced manning, increased mission effectiveness, and a reduced total cost including construction, maintenance, and operation are the goals of the modernization program. Modernization technologies will be integrated during new construction of DDG-111 and 112, then retrofitted into DDG flight I and II ships during in-service overhaul periods.[30] The first phase will update the hull, mechanical, and electrical systems while the second phase will introduce an open architecture computing environment (OACE). The result will be improved capability in both ballistic missile defense (BMD) and littoral combat.[31] By 2018 all Burkes homeported in the Western Pacific will have upgraded anti-submarine systems, including the new AN/SQR-20 Multifunction Towed Array.[32]

    The Navy is also upgrading the ships' ability to process data. Beginning with USS Spruance, the Navy is installing an internet protocol (IP) based data backbone, which enhances the ship's ability to handle video. Spruance is the first destroyer to be fitted with the Boeing Company's gigabit Ethernet data multiplex system (GEDMS).[33]

    In July 2010 BAE Systems announced that it had been awarded a contract to modernize 11 ships.[34]

    As of 2013, the Navy plans to conduct hybrid-electric propulsion tests to determine suitability for powering one of the ship's two propellers. This hybrid system, used on the USS Makin Island (LHD-8) and America-class amphibious assault ships, uses both diesel-electric propulsion and gas-turbine engines; the electric motors are capable of speeds of up to 12 knots, greater speeds necessitating use of the gas-turbine engine. If the Navy proceeds with installing hybrid propulsion, it is likely to be progressively retrofitted to existing ships as a part of their mid-life upgrades. The Navy is also studying a "stern flap" that would alter water flow around the hull and anti-corrosion paints may be applied to the hull for greater movement efficiency; both measures are aimed at reducing operational fuel consumption. New navigational software, the Smart Voyage Planning Software, is to be used to calculate water conditions and other environmental factors in order to maximize the efficiency of a vessel's route.[35]

    Production restarted and further development[]

    The class was scheduled to be replaced by Zumwalt-class destroyers beginning in 2020,[36] but an increasing threat from both long- and short-range missiles caused the Navy to restart production of the Arleigh Burke-class and consider placing littoral combat mission modules on the new ships.[37][38]

    In April 2009 the Navy announced a plan that limited the Zumwalt-class to three units while ordering another three Arleigh Burke-class ships from both Bath Iron Works and Ingalls Shipbuilding.[21] In December 2009 Northrop Grumman received a $170.7 million letter contract for DDG-113 long-lead-time materials.[39] Shipbuilding contracts for DDG-113 to DDG-115 were awarded in mid-2011 for US$679.6m–$783.6m;[40] these do not include government-furnished equipment such as weapons and sensors which will take the average cost of the FY2011/12 ships to US$1,842.7m per vessel.[1] DDG-113 to DDG-115 will be "restart" ships, similar to previous Flight IIA ships, but including modernization features such as Open Architecture Computing Environment; DDG-116 to DDG-121 will be "Technology Insertion" ships with elements of Flight III, and Flight III proper will start with DDG-122.[41]

    Flight III ships, construction starting in FY2016 in place of the canceled CG(X) program, have various design improvements including radar antennas of mid-diameter increased to 14 feet (4.3 m) from the previous 12 feet (3.7 m).[42] These Air and Missile Defense Radars (AMDR) use digital beamforming, instead of the earlier Passive Electronically Scanned Array radars.[43]

    However, costs for the Flight III ships increased rapidly as expectations and requirements for the program have grown. In particular, this was due to the changing requirements needed to carry the proposed Air and Missile Defense Radar system required for the ships' ballistic missile defense role.[44] The Government Accountability Office found that the design of the Flight IIIs was based on "a significantly reduced threat environment from other Navy analyses" and that the new ships would be "at best marginally effective".[45]

    In spite of the production restart, the Navy is expected to fall short of its requirement for 94 missile-defense-capable destroyer and cruiser platforms starting in FY 2025 and continuing past the end of the 30-year planning window. While this is a new requirement as of 2011, and the United States Navy has never had so many large missile-armed surface combatants, the relative success of the Aegis ballistic missile defense system has shifted this national security requirement onto the Navy. The shortfall will arise as older platforms that have been refitted to be missile-defense-capable (particularly the cruisers) are retired in bulk before new destroyers are planned to be built.[46]

    The Navy is considering extending the acquisition of Arleigh Burke-class destroyers into the 2040s, according to revised procurement tables sent to Congress, which have the Navy procuring Flight IV ships from 2032 through 2041.[47]

    Operational history[]

    See also: USS Cole bombing

    Arleigh Burke-class destroyer USS Cole was damaged on 12 October 2000 in Aden, Yemen while docked, by an attack in which an apparently shaped charge of 200–300 kg in a boat was placed against the hull and detonated by suicide bombers, killing 17 crew members. The ship was repaired, and returned to duty in 2001.

    In October 2011 it was announced that four Arleigh Burke-class destroyers would be forward-deployed in Europe to support the NATO missile defence system. The ships, to be based at Naval Station Rota, Spain, were named in February 2012, as Ross, Donald Cook, Porter and Carney.[48] By reducing travel times to station, this forward deployment will allow for six other destroyers to be shifted from the Atlantic in support of the Pivot to East Asia.[49]

    Contractors[]

    • Builders: 34 units constructed by General Dynamics, Bath Iron Works Division and 28 by Northrop Grumman Ship Systems, Ingalls Shipbuilding
    • AN/SPY-1 Radar and Combat System Integrator: Lockheed Martin

    Ships in class[]

    Name Hull no. Flight Builder Laid down Launched Commissioned Home port Status
    Arleigh Burke DDG 51 I Bath Iron Works 6 December 1988 16 September 1989 4 July 1991 Rota, Spain Active
    Barry DDG 52 I Ingalls Shipbuilding 26 February 1990 8 June 1991 12 December 1992 Everett, Washington Active
    John Paul Jones DDG 53 I Bath Iron Works 8 August 1990 26 October 1991 18 December 1993 Everett, Washington Active
    Curtis Wilbur DDG 54 I Bath Iron Works 12 March 1991 16 May 1992 19 March 1994 San Diego, California Active
    Stout DDG 55 I Ingalls Shipbuilding 8 August 1991 16 October 1992 13 August 1994 Norfolk, Virginia Active
    John S. McCain DDG 56 I Bath Iron Works 3 September 1991 26 September 1992 2 July 1994 Everett, Washington Active
    Mitscher DDG 57 I Ingalls Shipbuilding 12 February 1992 7 May 1993 10 December 1994 Norfolk, Virginia Active
    Laboon DDG 58 I Bath Iron Works 23 March 1992 20 February 1993 18 March 1995 Norfolk, Virginia Active
    Russell DDG 59 I Ingalls Shipbuilding 24 July 1992 20 October 1993 20 May 1995 San Diego, California Active
    Paul Hamilton DDG 60 I Bath Iron Works 24 August 1992 24 July 1993 27 May 1995 San Diego, California Active
    Ramage DDG 61 I Ingalls Shipbuilding 4 January 1993 11 February 1994 22 July 1995 Mayport, Florida Active
    Fitzgerald DDG 62 I Bath Iron Works 9 February 1993 29 January 1994 14 October 1995 San Diego, California Active
    Stethem DDG 63 I Ingalls Shipbuilding 11 May 1993 17 July 1994 21 October 1995 San Diego, California Active
    Carney DDG 64 I Bath Iron Works 8 August 1993 23 July 1994 13 April 1996 Mayport, Florida Active
    Benfold DDG 65 I Ingalls Shipbuilding 27 September 1993 9 November 1994 30 March 1996 Yokosuka, Japan Active
    Gonzalez DDG 66 I Bath Iron Works 3 February 1994 18 February 1995 12 October 1996 Norfolk, Virginia Active
    Cole DDG 67 I Ingalls Shipbuilding 28 February 1994 10 February 1995 8 June 1996 Norfolk, Virginia Active
    The Sullivans DDG 68 I Bath Iron Works 27 July 1994 12 August 1995 19 April 1997 Mayport, Florida Active
    Milius DDG 69 I Ingalls Shipbuilding 8 August 1994 1 August 1995 23 November 1996 Yokosuka, Japan Active
    Hopper DDG 70 I Bath Iron Works 23 February 1995 6 January 1996 6 September 1997 Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Active
    Ross DDG 71 I Ingalls Shipbuilding 10 April 1995 22 March 1996 28 June 1997 Norfolk, Virginia Active
    Mahan DDG 72 II Bath Iron Works 17 August 1995 29 June 1996 14 February 1998 Norfolk, Virginia Active
    Decatur DDG 73 II Bath Iron Works 11 January 1996 10 November 1996 29 August 1998 San Diego, California Active
    McFaul DDG 74 II Ingalls Shipbuilding 26 January 1996 18 January 1997 25 April 1998 Norfolk, Virginia Active
    Donald Cook DDG 75 II Bath Iron Works 9 July 1996 3 May 1997 4 December 1998 Mayport, Florida Active
    Higgins DDG 76 II Bath Iron Works 14 November 1996 4 October 1997 24 April 1999 Yokosuka, Japan Active
    O'Kane DDG 77 II Bath Iron Works 8 May 1997 28 March 1998 23 October 1999 San Diego, California Active
    Porter DDG 78 II Ingalls Shipbuilding 2 December 1996 12 November 1997 20 March 1999 Norfolk, Virginia Active
    Oscar Austin DDG 79 IIA Bath Iron Works 9 October 1997 7 November 1998 19 August 2000 Rota, Spain Active
    Roosevelt DDG 80 IIA Ingalls Shipbuilding 15 December 1997 10 January 1999 14 October 2000 Rota, Spain Active
    Winston S. Churchill DDG 81 IIA Bath Iron Works 7 May 1998 17 April 1999 10 March 2001 Mayport, Florida Active
    Lassen DDG 82 IIA Ingalls Shipbuilding 24 August 1998 16 October 1999 21 April 2001 Mayport, Florida Active
    Howard DDG 83 IIA Bath Iron Works 9 December 1998 20 November 1999 20 October 2001 Yokosuka, Japan Active
    Bulkeley DDG 84 IIA Ingalls Shipbuilding 10 May 1999 21 June 2000 8 December 2001 Rota, Spain Active
    McCampbell DDG 85 IIA Bath Iron Works 15 July 1999 2 July 2000 17 August 2002 Yokosuka, Japan Active
    Shoup DDG 86 IIA Ingalls Shipbuilding 13 December 1999 22 November 2000 22 June 2002 Yokosuka, Japan Active
    Mason DDG 87 IIA Bath Iron Works 19 January 2000 23 June 2001 12 April 2003 Mayport, Florida Active
    Preble DDG 88 IIA Ingalls Shipbuilding 22 June 2000 1 June 2001 9 November 2002 San Diego, California Active
    Mustin DDG 89 IIA Ingalls Shipbuilding 15 January 2001 12 December 2001 26 July 2003 San Diego, California Active
    Chafee DDG 90 IIA Bath Iron Works 12 April 2001 2 November 2002 18 October 2003 San Diego, California Active
    Pinckney DDG 91 IIA Ingalls Shipbuilding 16 July 2001 26 June 2002 29 May 2004 San Diego, California Active
    Momsen DDG 92 IIA Bath Iron Works 16 November 2001 19 July 2003 28 August 2004 Everett, Washington Active
    Chung-Hoon DDG 93 IIA Ingalls Shipbuilding 14 January 2002 15 December 2002 18 September 2004 Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Active
    Nitze DDG 94 IIA Bath Iron Works 20 September 2002 3 April 2004 5 March 2005 Norfolk, Virginia Active
    James E. Williams DDG 95 IIA Ingalls Shipbuilding 15 July 2002 25 June 2003 11 December 2004 Norfolk, Virginia Active
    Bainbridge DDG 96 IIA Bath Iron Works 7 May 2003 13 November 2004 12 November 2005 Norfolk, Virginia Active
    Halsey DDG 97 IIA Ingalls Shipbuilding 13 January 2002 9 January 2004 30 July 2005 San Diego, California Active
    Forrest Sherman DDG 98 IIA Ingalls Shipbuilding 7 August 2003 2 October 2004 28 January 2006 Norfolk, Virginia Active
    Farragut DDG 99 IIA Bath Iron Works 9 January 2004 23 July 2005 10 June 2006 Mayport, Florida Active
    Kidd DDG 100 IIA Ingalls Shipbuilding 29 April 2004 22 January 2005 9 June 2007 Everett, Washington Active
    Gridley DDG 101 IIA Bath Iron Works 30 July 2004 28 December 2005 10 February 2007 Everett, Washington Active
    Sampson DDG 102 IIA Bath Iron Works 20 March 2005 16 September 2006 3 November 2007 Everett, Washington Active
    Truxtun DDG 103 IIA Ingalls Shipbuilding 11 April 2005 2 June 2007 25 April 2009 Norfolk, Virginia Active
    Sterett DDG 104 IIA Bath Iron Works 17 November 2005 19 May 2007 9 August 2008 San Diego, California Active
    Dewey DDG 105 IIA Ingalls Shipbuilding 4 October 2006 26 January 2008 6 March 2010 Yokosuka, Japan Active
    Stockdale DDG 106 IIA Bath Iron Works 10 August 2006 10 May 2008 18 April 2009 San Diego, California Active
    Gravely DDG 107 IIA Ingalls Shipbuilding 26 November 2007 30 March 2009 20 November 2010 Norfolk, Virginia Active
    Wayne E. Meyer DDG 108 IIA Bath Iron Works 18 May 2007 18 October 2008 10 October 2009 Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Active
    Jason Dunham DDG 109 IIA Bath Iron Works 11 April 2008 1 August 2009 13 November 2010 Mayport, Florida Active
    William P. Lawrence DDG 110 IIA Ingalls Shipbuilding 16 September 2008 15 December 2009 4 June 2011 Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Active
    Spruance DDG 111 IIA Bath Iron Works 14 May 2009 6 June 2010 1 October 2011 San Diego, California Active
    Michael Murphy DDG 112 IIA Bath Iron Works 18 June 2010 7 May 2011 6 October 2012 Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Active
    John Finn DDG 113 IIA Restart Ingalls Shipbuilding 5 November 2013 28 March 2015 15 July 2017 Yokosuka, Japan Active
    Ralph Johnson DDG 114 IIA Restart Ingalls Shipbuilding 12 September 2014 12 December 2015 24 March 2018 Yokosuka, Japan Active
    Rafael Peralta DDG 115 IIA Restart Bath Iron Works 30 October 2014 1 November 2015 29 July 2017 Yokosuka, Japan Active
    Thomas Hudner DDG 116 IIA Technology Insertion Bath Iron Works 16 November 2015 23 April 2017 1 December 2018 Mayport, Florida Active
    Paul Ignatius DDG 117 IIA Technology Insertion Ingalls Shipbuilding 20 October 2015 12 November 2016 27 July 2019 Rota, Spain Active
    Daniel Inouye DDG 118 IIA Technology Insertion Bath Iron Works 14 May 2018 27 October 2019 8 December 2021 Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Active
    Delbert D. Black DDG 119 IIA Technology Insertion Ingalls Shipbuilding 1 June 2016 8 September 2017 26 September 2020 Mayport, Florida Active
    Carl M. Levin DDG 120 IIA Technology Insertion Bath Iron Works 1 February 2019 16 May 2021 24 June 2023 Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Active
    Frank E. Petersen Jr. DDG 121 IIA Technology Insertion Ingalls Shipbuilding 21 February 2017 13 July 2018 14 May 2022 Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Active
    John Basilone DDG 122 IIA Technology Insertion Bath Iron Works 10 January 2020 12 June 2022 9 November 2024 Mayport, Florida Active
    Lenah Sutcliffe Higbee DDG 123 IIA Technology Insertion Ingalls Shipbuilding 14 November 2017 27 January 2020 13 May 2023 San Diego, California Active
    Harvey C. Barnum Jr. DDG 124 IIA Technology Insertion Bath Iron Works 6 April 2021 3 October 2023 Tentatively estimated for May 2025 Launched
    Jack H. Lucas DDG 125 III Ingalls Shipbuilding 8 November 2019 4 June 2021 7 October 2023 San Diego, California Active
    Louis H. Wilson Jr. DDG 126 III Bath Iron Works 16 May 2023 Keel laid
    Patrick Gallagher DDG 127 IIA Technology Insertion Bath Iron Works 30 March 2022 27 July 2024 Expected Spring 2026 Norfolk, Virginia Christened
    Ted Stevens DDG 128 III Ingalls Shipbuilding 9 March 2022 15 August 2023 Norfolk, Virginia Launched
    Jeremiah Denton DDG 129 III Ingalls Shipbuilding 16 August 2022 Keel laid
    William Charette DDG 130 III Bath Iron Works 29 August 2024 Keel laid
    George M. Neal DDG 131 III Ingalls Shipbuilding 16 December 2023 Keel laid
    Quentin Walsh DDG 132 III Bath Iron Works Under construction
    Sam Nunn DDG 133 III Ingalls Shipbuilding Under construction
    John E. Kilmer DDG 134 III Bath Iron Works Under construction
    Thad Cochran DDG 135 III Ingalls Shipbuilding Approved for construction
    Richard G. Lugar DDG 136 III Bath Iron Works Approved for construction
    John F. Lehman DDG 137 III Ingalls Shipbuilding Approved for construction
    J. William Middendorf DDG 138 III Bath Iron Works Approved for construction
    Telesforo Trinidad DDG 139 III Ingalls Shipbuilding Approved for construction
    Thomas G. Kelley DDG 140 III Bath Iron Works Authorized
    Ernest E. Evans DDG 141 III Ingalls Shipbuilding Authorized
    Charles J. French DDG 142 III Ingalls Shipbuilding Authorized
    Richard J. Danzig DDG 143 III Ingalls Shipbuilding Authorized
    Michael G. Mullen DDG 144 III Bath Iron Works Authorized
    Intrepid DDG 145 III Ingalls Shipbuilding Authorized
    Robert Kerrey DDG 146 III Ingalls Shipbuilding Authorized
    Ray Mabus DDG 147 III Ingalls Shipbuilding Authorized
    Kyle Carpenter DDG 148 III Bath Iron Works Authorized
    Robert R. Ingram DDG 149 III Ingalls Shipbuilding Authorized

    USS Michael Murphy was originally intended to be the last of the Arleigh Burke class. However with reduction of the Zumwalt-class production, the Navy requested new DDG-51-class ships.[50] Long-lead materials contracts were awarded to Northrop Grumman in December 2009 for DDG-113 and in April 2010 for DDG-114.[51] General Dynamics received a long-lead materials contract for DDG-115 in February 2010.[52][53] It is anticipated that in FY2012 or FY2013, the Navy will commence detailed work for a Flight III design and request 24 ships to be built from 2016 to 2031.[54] In May 2013, a total of 77 Burke-class ships was planned.[55] The Flight III variant is in the design phase as of 2013. In June 2013, the US Navy awarded $6.2 billion in destroyer contracts.[56] Up to 42 Flight III ships are expected to be procured by the Navy with the first ship entering service in 2023.[57]

    Foreign interest[]

    In May 2011 Saudi Arabia received a price estimate for the purchase of Arleigh Burke-class destroyers.[58]

    Gallery[]

    See also[]

    Notes[]

    1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 O'Rourke, Ronald (19 April 2011). "Navy DDG-51 and DDG-1000 Destroyer Programs: Background and Issues for Congress". Congressional Research Service. http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?Location=U2&doc=GetTRDoc.pdf&AD=ADA543249. Retrieved 23 October 2011.  Since 1 and 2 ships are procured in alternate years and the "1 in a year" ships cost more, the fairest estimate of unit price comes from averaging three ships across two years. US$50-300m is spent on long lead-time items in the year before the main procurement of each ship. DDG-114 and DDG-115 together cost US$577.2m (FY2010) + US$2,922.2m (FY2011) = US$3,499.4m,(p25) and DDG-116 cost US$48m (FY2011) + US$1,980.7m (FY2012) = US$2,028.7m,(p12) making an average for the three ships of US$1,847.2m. DDG-113 cost US$2,234.4m.(p6)
    2. ↑ "Navy DDG-51 and DDG-1000 Destroyer Programs: Background and Issues for Congress". Congressional Research Service Reports for the People (Open CRS). 26 February 2010. Archived from the original on 23 April 2010. http://web.archive.org/web/20100423160951/http://opencrs.com/document/RL32109/2010-02-26/?24684. Retrieved 15 April 2010. 
    3. ↑ "COMDESRON FIFTEEN". United States Navy. http://www.public.navy.mil/surfor/cds15/Pages/CDS15Ships.aspx. Retrieved 9 October 2010. 
    4. ↑ "USS Lassen – About Us". United States Navy. Archived from the original on 11 October 2010. http://web.archive.org/web/20101011001754/http://www.public.navy.mil/surfor/ddg82/Pages/ourship.aspx. Retrieved 9 October 2010. 
    5. ↑ pamphlet 09-MDA-4298 (4 MAR 09). 
    6. ↑ DDG-51 Arleigh Burke – Flight IIA
    7. ↑ http://www.navy.mil/navydata/fact_display.asp?cid=4200&tid=900&ct=4
    8. ↑ 8.00 8.01 8.02 8.03 8.04 8.05 8.06 8.07 8.08 8.09 http://www.fas.org/programs/ssp/man/uswpns/navy/surfacewarfare/ddg51_arleighburke.html
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    References[]

    • Baker, A.D. The Naval Institute Guide to Combat Fleets of the World 1998–1999. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 1998. ISBN 1-55750-111-4.
    • Gardiner, Robert and Chumbley, Stephen. Conway's All The World's Fighting Ships 1947–1995. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 1995. ISBN 1-55750-132-7.

    Further reading[]

    • Sanders, Michael S. (1999). The Yard: Building a Destroyer at the Bath Iron Works. New York: HarperCollins. ISBN 0-06-019246-1.  (Describes the construction of Donald Cook (DDG-75) at Bath Iron Works.)

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