USS Paul Ignatius

USS Jason Dunham, another Flight IIA Arleigh Burke.
History
Name:	USS Paul Ignatius
Namesake:	Paul Ignatius[1]
Builder:	Ingalls Shipbuilding
Laid down:	30 September 2014[2]
Launched:	12 November 2016
Commissioned:	Expected 2018
Status:	Authorized
General characteristics
Class and type:	Arleigh Burke-class destroyer, Flight IIA
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:	1 × 32 cell, 1 × 64 cell Mk 41 vertical launch systems, 96 × RIM-66 SM-2, BGM-109 Tomahawk or RUM-139 VL-Asroc, missiles 1 × 5in (127mm)/62 cal , 2 × 25 mm, 4 × 12.7 mm guns 2 × Mk 46 triple torpedo tubes 1 × 20mm Phalanx CIWS
Aircraft carried:	2 × SH-60 Sea Hawk helicopters

USS Paul Ignatius (DDG-117) will be an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer of the United States Navy. She is named for Paul Ignatius who served as United States Secretary of the Navy under President Lyndon Johnson from 1967 to 1969. Paul Ignatius will be the 2nd of 8 planned Flight IIA "technology insertion" ships, which will contain elements of the Flight III ships projected to begin with DDG-124.

References

1. ↑ "Navy Names Next Two Destroyers" (Press release). Navy News Service. 23 May 2013. NNS130523-13. Retrieved 25 August 2016. 
2. ↑ http://www.navy.mil/submit/display.asp?story_id=83615