USS Daniel Inouye
USS Jason Dunham, another Flight IIA Arleigh Burke. | |
History | |
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Name: | USS Daniel Inouye |
Namesake: | Daniel Inouye[1] |
Builder: | Bath Iron Works |
Laid down: | 31 October 2014[2] |
Launched: | TBA |
Commissioned: | Expected 2018 |
Status: | Authorized |
General characteristics | |
Class and type: | Arleigh Burke-class destroyer |
Displacement: | 9,200 long tons (9,300 t) |
Length: | 510 ft (160 m) |
Draft: | 33 ft (10 m) |
Propulsion: | 4 × General Electric LM2500-30 gas turbines, 2 shafts, 100,000 shp (75 MW) |
Complement: | 380 officers and enlisted |
Armament: |
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Aircraft carried: | 2 × SH-60 Sea Hawk helicopters |
USS Daniel Inouye (DDG-118) will be an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer of the United States Navy. The ship will be named to honor former United States Senator Daniel Inouye of Hawaii.[1] Inouye was awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions in Tuscany, Italy, during World War II.[1]
Daniel Inouye will be the third of eight planned Flight IIA "technology insertion" ships, which will contain elements of the Flight III ships projected to begin with DDG-124.
References
- 1 2 3 "Navy Names Next Two Destroyers" (Press release). Navy News Service. 23 May 2013. NNS130523-13. Retrieved 25 August 2016.
- ↑ "Fabrication Begins for the Future USS Daniel Inouye" (Press release). Navy News Service. 31 October 2014. NNS141031-13. Retrieved 25 August 2016.
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