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USS Thomas Hudner (DDG-116) is the first Flight IIA Technology Insertion variant of the Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer. [3] The $663 million contract to build her was awarded on 28 February 2012, to Bath Iron Works , of Bath , Maine.
DDG-116 to DDG-124 and DDG-127 will be "Technology Insertion" ships with elements of Flight III. [142] [143] For example, USS Delbert D. Black (DDG-119) and onwards have the AN/SPQ-9B, a feature of Flight III, instead of the AN/SPS-67. [144] Flight III proper began with the third ship procured in 2016, [145] USS Jack H. Lucas (DDG-125). [146]
During the long production run, the class was built in three flights—Flight I (DDG-51–DDG-71), Flight II (DDG-72–DDG-78), and Flight IIA (DDG-79– ). [15] Ralph Johnson is a Flight IIA ship, and as such, features several improvements in terms of ballistic missile defence, an embarked air wing, and the inclusion of mine-detecting ability. [6]
Carrier Airborne Early Warning Squadron 116 (VAW-116) (NAS Point Mugu, CA) Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron 6 (HSC-6) (NAS North Island, CA) Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadron 73 (HSM-73) (NAS North Island, CA) Fleet Logistics Support Squadron 30, Detachment 4 (VRC-30 Det. 4) (NAS North Island, CA)
It is a tenant command of Naval Station Great Lakes in the city of North Chicago, Illinois, in Lake County, north of Chicago. Called "The Quarterdeck of the Navy" since it opened in July 1911, RTC Great Lakes has been the service's only enlisted basic training location since 1994, when the Recruit Training Command in Orlando, Florida , was ...
The Zumwalt-class destroyer is a class of three United States Navy guided-missile destroyers designed as multi-mission stealth ships with a focus on land attack. The class was designed with a primary role of naval gunfire support and secondary roles of surface warfare and anti-aircraft warfare.
This is a list of people associated with the University of Illinois Chicago in the United States. Note that for earlier alumni, validating attendance is difficult. Before the creation of the Circle Campus, UIC was a two-year institution at Navy Pier. After two years, students continued at the Urbana-Champaign campus. During this period, the ...
USS John Paul Jones (DDG-53) is the third Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer in the United States Navy and the first ship of the class homeported on the west coast. She is the fifth ship named after American Revolutionary War naval captain John Paul Jones and the second to carry his first name.