PASCAGOULA, Miss. – The Navy’s latest guided-missile destroyer, the long run USS Jack H. Lucas (DDG 125), sailed away from the Huntington Ingalls Industries’ (HII) Ingalls Shipbuilding Division shipyard, Sept 26.
“Sail away of the primary Flight III Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer is a historic occasion for this system,” stated Capt. Seth Miller, the DDG 51 program supervisor on the Arleigh Burke-class program workplace, Program Govt Workplace, Ships. “The Navy continues to subject cutting-edge warfighting functionality that can ply the oceans and deter our adversaries for many years to come back.”
DDG-125 will probably be commissioned Oct. 7, 2023 at a ceremony in Tampa, Florida earlier than crusing to its homeport in San Diego.
DDG-125 is known as for Pfc. Jacklyn Harold “Jack” Lucas, who served within the U.S. Marines throughout World Struggle II, incomes the Medal of Honor for his heroism at Iwo Jima, when he was simply 17 years outdated. He’s the youngest Marine, and the youngest serviceman in World Struggle II, to be awarded america’ highest navy ornament for valor. In 1961, he returned to navy service as a captain within the U.S. Army and skilled youthful troops headed for Vietnam.
Arleigh Burke-class destroyers are multi-mission ships in a position to maintain targets in danger on land, at sea, within the air, and beneath water utilizing a set of refined weapons and sensors. The Flight III configuration contains the AN/SPY-6(V)1 Air and Missile Protection Radar, offering significantly enhanced warfighting functionality to the fleet.
Ingalls can also be in manufacturing on future destroyers Ted Stevens (DDG 128), Jeremiah Denton (DDG 129), George M. Neal (DDG 131), and Sam Nunn (DDG 133).
As one of many Protection Division’s largest acquisition organizations, PEO Ships is answerable for executing the event and procurement of all destroyers, amphibious ships, sealift ships, assist ships, boats and craft.
