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The first restart Arleigh Burke guided missile destroyer (DDG-51) completed its builder’s trials this week, according to a Friday statement from Naval Sea Systems Command.
John Finn (DDG-113) spent three days at sea testing the ship’s systems in the Gulf of Mexico from Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII).
“Finn successfully conducted a full power run and demonstrated key communication, damage control, and navigation systems as well as various hull, mechanical and electrical, and propulsion applications,” read the NAVSEA release.
The 9,200-ton multi-mission destroyer is built around the Aegis combat system and will feature the Navy’s new Baseline 9 version that will allow the ship to simultaneously track and target ballistic missile and traditional air warfare threats.
“We’re excited about how strongly DDG 113 performed while underway,” said Capt. Casey Moton, DDG 51 class program manager, Program Executive Office (PEO) Ships in the statement,
“DDG 113 is the first new construction Arleigh Burke class ship to go to sea in over four years. Our shipbuilder is on a solid path to delivering a high quality ship following the program’s restart in 2010.”
In 2009 then Secretary of Defense Bob Gates announced the service cancelled the planned CG(X) cruiser replacement and truncated the DDG-1000 guided missile destroyer program to three ships.
Contracts for the first four DDGs – two to HII and two to General Dynamics Bath Iron Works — were awarded in 2011.
“HII’s Pascagoula shipyard is currently in production on future destroyers Ralph Johnson (DDG-114), Paul Ignatius (DDG-117), Delbert Black (DDG 119) and Frank E. Petersen Jr. (DDG 121) and under contract for two additional ships awarded as part of the five-ship multi-year procurement for fiscal years 2013-2017,” NAVSEA said.
The ship is named for Navy Lt. John Finn who received the Medal of Honor during actions taken in the surprise attack of Pearl Harbor by the Imperial Japanese Navy on Dec. 7, 1941.
https://news.usni.org/2016/09/02/vi...igh-burke-destroyer-completes-builders-trials
