USS Paul Ignatius DDG-117, mais um destróier classe 'Arleigh Burke'

A divisão de construção naval Ingalls Industries (HII) da Huntington Ingalls lançou ao mar o USS Paul Ignatius (DDG-117), o 31º destróier de mísseis guiados da classe Arleigh Burke (DDG-51) construído pela companhia, no dia 12 de novembro de 2016.

O USS Paul Ignatius (DDG-117) foi movido através do sistema de trilhos da Ingalls para uma doca seca flutuante. Uma vez posicionado, a doca seca foi afastada do cais, e depois alagada para flutuar o navio.

A Ingalls entregou 28 destróieres da classe Arleigh Burke à Marinha dos Estados Unidos. Outros destróieres atualmente em construção na Ingalls incluem USS John Finn (DDG-113), USS Ralph Johnson (DDG-114), USS Delbert D. Black (DDG-119) e USS Frank E. Petersen Jr. (DDG-121). A construção do USS Lenah H. Sutcliffe Higbee (DDG-123) está programada para começar no segundo trimestre de 2017.

Ao todo foram incoporados até agora 62 navios da classe Arleigh Burke, 34 construídos pela General Dynamics, Bath Iron Works Division, e 28 pela Huntington Ingalls Industries (anteriormente Northrop Grumman Ship Systems), Ingalls Shipbuilding. Estão em construção mais 7 navios da classe.

O USS Michael Murphy foi originalmente destinado a ser o último da classe Arleigh Burke, mas com a redução da produção da classe Zumwalt (DDG-1000), a Marinha dos EUA solicitou novos navios de classe DDG-51. Os contratos de materiais de longa duração foram concedidos à Northrop Grumman em dezembro de 2009 para o DDG-113 e em abril de 2010 para o DDG-114.

A General Dynamics recebeu um contrato de longo prazo para o DDG-115 em fevereiro de 2010. Em maio de 2013, um total de 76 navios estavam planejados. A variante Flight III está em fase de projeto a partir de 2013 e até 42 navios do tipo poderão ser adquiridos pela Marinha dos EUA com o primeiro navio entrando em serviço em 2023. Veja abaixo na tabela da Wikipedia, os navios da classe Arleigh Burke:

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Flight I
Name	Number	Builder	Launched	Commissioned	Home port	Status
Arleigh Burke	DDG-51	Bath Iron Works	16 September 1989	4 July 1991	Norfolk, Virginia	Active
Barry	DDG-52	Ingalls Shipbuilding	8 June 1991	12 December 1992	Yokosuka, Japan	Active
John Paul Jones	DDG-53	Bath Iron Works	26 October 1991	18 December 1993	Pearl Harbor, Hawaii	Active
Curtis Wilbur	DDG-54	Bath Iron Works	16 May 1992	19 March 1994	Yokosuka, Japan	Active
Stout	DDG-55	Ingalls Shipbuilding	16 October 1992	13 August 1994	Norfolk, Virginia	Active
John S. McCain	DDG-56	Bath Iron Works	26 September 1992	2 July 1994	Yokosuka, Japan	Active
Mitscher	DDG-57	Ingalls Shipbuilding	7 May 1993	10 December 1994	Norfolk, Virginia	Active
Laboon	DDG-58	Bath Iron Works	20 February 1993	18 March 1995	Norfolk, Virginia	Active
Russell	DDG-59	Ingalls Shipbuilding	20 October 1993	20 May 1995	San Diego, California	Active
Paul Hamilton	DDG-60	Bath Iron Works	24 July 1993	27 May 1995	San Diego, California	Active
Ramage	DDG-61	Ingalls Shipbuilding	11 February 1994	22 July 1995	Norfolk, Virginia	Active
Fitzgerald	DDG-62	Bath Iron Works	29 January 1994	14 October 1995	Yokosuka, Japan	Active
Stethem	DDG-63	Ingalls Shipbuilding	17 July 1994	21 October 1995	Yokosuka, Japan	Active
Carney	DDG-64	Bath Iron Works	23 July 1994	13 April 1996	Naval Station Rota, Spain	Active
Benfold	DDG-65	Ingalls Shipbuilding	9 November 1994	30 March 1996	Yokosuka, Japan	Active
Gonzalez	DDG-66	Bath Iron Works	18 February 1995	12 October 1996	Norfolk, Virginia	Active
Cole	DDG-67	Ingalls Shipbuilding	10 February 1995	8 June 1996	Norfolk, Virginia	Active
The Sullivans	DDG-68	Bath Iron Works	12 August 1995	19 April 1997	Mayport, Florida	Active
Milius	DDG-69	Ingalls Shipbuilding	1 August 1995	23 November 1996	San Diego, California	Active
Hopper	DDG-70	Bath Iron Works	6 January 1996	6 September 1997	Pearl Harbor, Hawaii	Active
Ross	DDG-71	Ingalls Shipbuilding	22 March 1996	28 June 1997	Rota, Spain	Active
Flight II
Mahan	DDG-72	Bath Iron Works	29 June 1996	14 February 1998	Norfolk, Virginia	Active
Decatur	DDG-73	Bath Iron Works	10 November 1996	29 August 1998	San Diego, California	Active
McFaul	DDG-74	Ingalls Shipbuilding	18 January 1997	25 April 1998	Norfolk, Virginia	Active
Donald Cook	DDG-75	Bath Iron Works	3 May 1997	4 December 1998	Rota, Spain	Active
Higgins	DDG-76	Bath Iron Works	4 October 1997	24 April 1999	San Diego, California	Active
O’Kane	DDG-77	Bath Iron Works	28 March 1998	23 October 1999	Pearl Harbor, Hawaii	Active
Porter	DDG-78	Ingalls Shipbuilding	12 November 1997	20 March 1999	Rota, Spain	Active
Flight IIA: 5″/54 variant
Oscar Austin	DDG-79	Bath Iron Works	7 November 1998	19 August 2000	Norfolk, Virginia	Active
Roosevelt	DDG-80	Ingalls Shipbuilding	10 January 1999	14 October 2000	Mayport, Florida	Active
Flight IIA: 5″/62 variant
Winston S. Churchill	DDG-81	Bath Iron Works	17 April 1999	10 March 2001	Norfolk, Virginia	Active
Lassen	DDG-82	Ingalls Shipbuilding	16 October 1999	21 April 2001	Mayport, Florida	Active
Howard	DDG-83	Bath Iron Works	20 November 1999	20 October 2001	San Diego, California	Active
Bulkeley	DDG-84	Ingalls Shipbuilding	21 June 2000	8 December 2001	Norfolk, Virginia	Active
Flight IIA: 5″/62, one 20mm CIWS variant
McCampbell	DDG-85	Bath Iron Works	2 July 2000	17 August 2002	Yokosuka, Japan	Active
Shoup	DDG-86	Ingalls Shipbuilding	22 November 2000	22 June 2002	Everett, Washington	Active
Mason	DDG-87	Bath Iron Works	23 June 2001	12 April 2003	Norfolk, Virginia	Active
Preble	DDG-88	Ingalls Shipbuilding	1 June 2001	9 November 2002	Pearl Harbor, Hawaii	Active
Mustin	DDG-89	Ingalls Shipbuilding	12 December 2001	26 July 2003	Yokosuka, Japan	Active
Chafee	DDG-90	Bath Iron Works	2 November 2002	18 October 2003	Pearl Harbor, Hawaii	Active
Pinckney	DDG-91	Ingalls Shipbuilding	26 June 2002	29 May 2004	San Diego, California	Active
Momsen	DDG-92	Bath Iron Works	19 July 2003	28 August 2004	Everett, Washington	Active
Chung-Hoon	DDG-93	Ingalls Shipbuilding	15 December 2002	18 September 2004	Pearl Harbor, Hawaii	Active
Nitze	DDG-94	Bath Iron Works	3 April 2004	5 March 2005	Norfolk, Virginia	Active
James E. Williams	DDG-95	Ingalls Shipbuilding	25 June 2003	11 December 2004	Norfolk, Virginia	Active
Bainbridge	DDG-96	Bath Iron Works	13 November 2004	12 November 2005	Norfolk, Virginia	Active
Halsey	DDG-97	Ingalls Shipbuilding	9 January 2004	30 July 2005	Pearl Harbor, Hawaii	Active
Forrest Sherman	DDG-98	Ingalls Shipbuilding	2 October 2004	28 January 2006	Norfolk, Virginia	Active
Farragut	DDG-99	Bath Iron Works	23 July 2005	10 June 2006	Mayport, Florida	Active
Kidd	DDG-100	Ingalls Shipbuilding	22 January 2005	9 June 2007	Everett, Washington	Active
Gridley	DDG-101	Bath Iron Works	28 December 2005	10 February 2007	Everett, Washington	Active
Sampson	DDG-102	Bath Iron Works	16 September 2006	3 November 2007	Everett, Washington	Active
Truxtun	DDG-103	Ingalls Shipbuilding	2 June 2007	25 April 2009	Norfolk, Virginia	Active
Sterett	DDG-104	Bath Iron Works	19 May 2007	9 August 2008	San Diego, California	Active
Dewey	DDG-105	Ingalls Shipbuilding	26 January 2008	6 March 2010	San Diego, California	Active
Stockdale	DDG-106	Bath Iron Works	10 May 2008	18 April 2009	San Diego, California	Active
Gravely	DDG-107	Ingalls Shipbuilding	30 March 2009	20 November 2010	Norfolk, Virginia	Active
Wayne E. Meyer	DDG-108	Bath Iron Works	18 October 2008	10 October 2009	San Diego, California	Active
Jason Dunham	DDG-109	Bath Iron Works	1 August 2009	13 November 2010	Norfolk, Virginia	Active
William P. Lawrence	DDG-110	Ingalls Shipbuilding	15 December 2009	4 June 2011	San Diego, California	Active
Spruance	DDG-111	Bath Iron Works	6 June 2010	1 October 2011	San Diego, California	Active
Michael Murphy	DDG-112	Bath Iron Works	7 May 2011	6 October 2012	Pearl Harbor, Hawaii	Active
Flight IIA: Restart
John Finn	DDG-113	Ingalls Shipbuilding	28 March 2015^[70]			Launched
Ralph Johnson	DDG-114	Ingalls Shipbuilding	12 December 2015			Launched
Rafael Peralta	DDG-115	Bath Iron Works	1 November 2015			Launched
Flight IIA: Technology Insertion
Thomas Hudner	DDG-116	Bath Iron Works				Keel Laid
Paul Ignatius	DDG-117	Ingalls Shipbuilding	12 November 2016			Launched
Daniel Inouye	DDG-118	Bath Iron Works				Keel Laid
Delbert D. Black	DDG-119	Ingalls Shipbuilding				Keel Laid
Carl M. Levin	DDG-120	Bath Iron Works				Contract awarded (MYP)
Frank E. Petersen Jr.^[78]	DDG-121	Ingalls Shipbuilding				Contract awarded (MYP)
John Basilone	DDG-122	Bath Iron Works		scheduled in 2022		Contract awarded (MYP)
Lenah H. Sutcliffe Higbee	DDG-123	Ingalls Shipbuilding				Contract awarded (MYP)
Flight III
Harvey C. Barnum Jr.^[77]	DDG-124	Bath Iron Works				Contract awarded (MYP)
Jack H. Lucas	DDG-125	Ingalls Shipbuilding				Contract awarded (MYP)
Louis H. Wilson, Jr.	DDG-126	Bath Iron Works				Contract awarded (MYP)