Due to the ongoing novel coronavirus pandemic, HII conducted the event with limited numbers. The commissioning of this Flight IIA version of the DDG had originally been scheduled for christening last ...
October 22, 2024: The US Navy has found its 9,700-ton Burke class destroyers to be a successful design, so successful that 117 have been built, are on order or planned. This many destroyers of one ...
The decision to have the seventh Nimitz-class nuclear-powered aircraft carrier for the late Senator John C. Stennis of Mississippi continues to be controversial. The same certainly can’t be said of ...
Christening of the future USS John Basilone at Bath Iron Works in Maine. Courtesy of the shipbuilder The Navy on Saturday christened the second destroyer to be named after Marine Corps World War II ...
Bath Iron Works on Saturday christened the U.S. Navy’s newest guided missile destroyer, the future USS John Basilone, named for a World War II hero, Marine Corps Gunnery Sgt. John Basilone. The ...
May 12 (UPI) --The U.S. Navy will commission the new Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer USS Lenah Sutcliffe Higbee in a ceremony in Key West Saturday. The ship, designated DDG-123, will be ...