[Observer Network News] According to a report by USNI News on the 16th, Bath Steel Shipyard, a subsidiary of General Dynamics, held a keel laying ceremony for the first "arleigh burke" class FlightⅢ III (hereinafter referred to as "Burke" III) guided missile destroyer.
DDG-126 "Louis H Wilson""keel laying ceremony" Image source: Bath Steel
This warship named "Louis H. Wilson" has the ship number DDG-126 to commemorate the US Marine Corps Admiral Louis H. Wilson Jr. (1920-2005). The US Navy’s "Burke" III first ship DDG-125 "Jack H. Lucas" was built by Ingles Shipyard of Huntington ingels Industries. Currently,
On December 12th last year, the first Burke Ⅲ, DDG-125 "Jack H Lucas" built by Ingles Shipyard made its first sea trial.
Due to the delay caused by supply chain problems and the subsequent COVID-19 pandemic, the destroyer DDG-120 "Carl M Levin", which started construction in Bath Steel in 2016 and laid keel in 2019, was delivered to the US Navy in January this year and is expected to be put into use in June. USNI previously reported that Bath Steel still has.
ⅡA, including DDG-122 "john basilone", DDG-124 "Harvey barnum Jr." and DDG-127 "Patrick Gallagher", of which "Basron" was launched on June 11th last year, and two other Burke III-DDG-130 "with steel plates cut but no keel laid.
Arleigh burke-class destroyers of the US Navy have been built by Bath Steel and ingels Shipyards for a long time, and Bath Steel was the contractor of all arleigh burke-class first-class ships DDG-51 arleigh burke. In 2008, Bath Steel won the construction contract of DDG-1000 "zumwalt", and then all three "zumwalt" classes were built in Bath Steel, which greatly affected the construction speed of the "Burke" class in the factory. The first ship DDG-125 "George H Lucas" of "Burke" III was also spent in ingels, on the other hand, in DDG-.
Since 2008, all three "zumwalt" class ships have been built in Bath Steel, together with "Burke" IIA. The picture shows the scene taken in 2016. There are DDG-115 "Raphael peralta" (left) and DDG-1001 "Michael Munsoor" on the platform.
Although DDG-126, whose keel has just been laid, belongs to the second Burke III ship in the ship number sequence, DDG-125, the first ship of Burke III built by ingels, laid its keel as early as November 2019 three and a half years ago, and began to go to sea for trial in April this year. Despite the influence of the COVID-19 pandemic, two ships, which were also built by ingels and whose ship number sequence was further behind DDG-126,
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