USS Carl M. Levin
USS Carl M. Levin (DDG-120) will be a United States Navy Arleigh Burke-class Flight IIA guided missile destroyer, the 70th overall for the class. The ship will be named for Carl Levin, a former United States Senator and Chairman of the United States Senate Committee on Armed Services.[1]
USS Arleigh Burke (DDG-51), lead ship of the class. | |
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Name: | Carl M. Levin |
Namesake: | Carl Levin[1] |
Awarded: | 14 March 2014 |
Builder: | Bath Iron Works[1] |
Laid down: | 1 February 2019[2] |
Motto: | Tenacious in the Fight |
Status: | Under construction |
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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 |
Aviation facilities: | Flight deck, Hangar bay |
The contract for the ship, along with the name, was first announced in a press release from General Dynamics, parent company of Bath Iron Works, on 31 March 2016.[3] The official designation of DDG 120 as the Carl M. Levin by Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus was announced on 11 April 2016.[1]
References
- "Secretary Mabus Names Next Destroyer Carl M. Levin" (Press release). Navy News Service. 11 April 2016. NNS160411-12. Retrieved 25 August 2016.
- "Keel Laid for Future USS Carl M. Levin" (Press release). United States Navy. 2 February 2019. NNS190202-03. Retrieved 2 February 2019.
- "DDG 120 contract awarded to GD/BIW" (Press release). General Dynamics. 31 March 2016. Retrieved 17 December 2017.
- This article includes information collected from the Naval Vessel Register, which, as a U.S. government publication, is in the public domain. The entry can be found here.
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