General Dynamics vai construir mais dois destróieres classe 'Arleigh Burke'

A Marinha dos EUA concedeu à General Dynamics Bath Iron Works uma modificação de contrato financiando totalmente a construção de dois novos destróieres da classe “Arleigh Burke, DDG 126 e DDG 127.

O DDG 126 foi adjudicado no âmbito do contrato que fazia parte de uma competição plurianual para destróieres da classe DDG 51 em 2013. O DDG 127 foi aprovado pelo Congresso sob legislação separada.

Dirk Lesko, presidente da Bath Iron Works, disse: “Esses contratos ajudam a estabilizar nossos negócios e são bem vindos. Agradecemos à delegação do Congresso do Maine e ao secretário da Marinha Spencer por seus esforços e liderança”.

A modificação do contrato inclui o financiamento das atualizações do Flight III no DDG 126. As atualizações incorporarão o novo Radar de Defesa de Míssil Avançado (AMDR) que substituirá o radar SPY-1 existente instalado nos navios DDG 51 anteriores.

Os destróieres Flight III operarão com mais pessoal, terão uma popa mais ampla para aumentar a flutuabilidade do navio e terão uma superestrutura modificada para acomodar o tamanho e o peso do novo radar.

Atualmente, existem quatro destróieres DDG 51 em produção no Bath Iron Works: Thomas Hudner (DDG 116), Daniel Inouye (DDG 118), Carl M. Levin (DDG 120) e John Basilone (DDG 122).

A Marinha batizou o DDG 126 como Louis H. Wilson Jr., em homenagem ao 26º Comandante do Corpo de Fuzileiros Navais dos Estados Unidos, que recebeu a medalha de Honra da Segunda Guerra Mundial por suas ações durante a Batalha de Guam.

Navios da classe “Arleigh Burke” (Wikipedia)

Flight I
Name	Number	Crest	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	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	Pearl Harbor, Hawaii	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	15 July 2017	San Diego, California	Active
Ralph Johnson	DDG-114		Ingalls Shipbuilding	12 December 2015	scheduled in 2017		Launched
Rafael Peralta	DDG-115		Bath Iron Works	1 November 2015	29 July 2017	San Diego, California	Active
Flight IIA: Technology Insertion
Thomas Hudner	DDG-116		Bath Iron Works	23 April 2017	scheduled in 2018		Launched
Paul Ignatius	DDG-117		Ingalls Shipbuilding	12 November 2016	scheduled in 2018		Launched
Daniel Inouye	DDG-118		Bath Iron Works				Keel Laid
Delbert D. Black	DDG-119		Ingalls Shipbuilding	15 September 2017	scheduled in 2018		Keel Laid
Carl M. Levin	DDG-120		Bath Iron Works				Contract awarded (MYP)
Frank E. Petersen Jr.	DDG-121		Ingalls Shipbuilding		scheduled in 2020		Keel Laid
John Basilone	DDG-122		Bath Iron Works		scheduled in 2022		Contract awarded (MYP)
Lenah H. Sutcliffe Higbee	DDG-123		Ingalls Shipbuilding				Keel Laid
Flight III
Harvey C. Barnum Jr.	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)