Foreground: Catherin B. Reynolds, left, and Ruby Lucas officially christen Jack H. Lucas (DDG 125). Observing in the background, (from left) Kari Wilkinson, Ingalls Shipbuilding president; U.S. Navy Adm. Michael Gilday, chief of naval operations; and U.S. Navy Capt. Brett Oster, DDG 12...
HII’s Ingalls Shipbuilding delivered the USS Jack H Lucas (DDG-125) vessel to the US Navy in June 2023 and was commissioned in October same year. Construction of USS Louis H Wilson Jr (DDG-126) started at the BIW shipyard in March 2020. Other Flight III Arleigh Burke-class combat warsh...
For two days, the Navy combed the waters near whereF-4had been lost and, using drags followed up by divers, was able to approximate her position on the sea bottom. Two Navy hard hat salvage divers attached from the submarine flotilla, GMCs John “Jack” Agraz and John Evans, descended ...
Navy, with five more currently under construction at Ingalls, including Lenah Sutcliffe Higbee (DDG 123), Jack H. Lucas (DDG 125), Ted Stevens (DDG 128), Jeremiah Denton (DDG 129) and George M. Neal (DDG 131). HII describes Arleigh Burke-class destroyers as highly capable, multi-...
Installation of the U.S. Navy’s AN/SPY-6(V)1 radar has begun on the service’s new Aegis Flight III guided-missile destroyer, the future USS Jack H. Lucas (DDG 125). The four arrays that comprise the highly advanced radar system, built by Raytheon Missiles & Defense, a Raytheon Tec...
The number of ships required was planned to be between eight and 12, but in July 2008, the US Navy announced that the DDG 1000 programme would be cancelled after the completion of the first two ships. The US Navy will instead continue with the construction of further Arleigh Burke (DDG 51...
US Navy awards DDG 51 multi-year procurement contracts through FY 2027Michael Fabey, Washington, DCJane's Navy International
“The start of fabrication on a new destroyer is always exciting,” said Ingalls’ DDG 51 program manager George Nungesser. “DDG 125 is no exception. Our shipbuilders have delivered 30 of these ships to the U.S. Navy and back-to-back building has allowed them to gain experience and tale...
This increases interoperability with the US Navy when defending the seas around the Korean peninsula. It has not yet been confirmed which ship will be the first Flight III variant. Based on available information it looks like it will be either DDG 125, Jack H Lucas, or DDG 126, Louis H ...
Raytheon Company will build two additional shipsets of SPY-6 radars under a $250 million contract with the U.S. Navy