USS Paul Ignatius (DDG-117)

History
USS Jason Dunham, another Flight IIA Arleigh Burke.

Name:	PCU Paul Ignatius
Namesake:	Former US Secretary of the Navy Paul Ignatius ^[1]
Builder:	Ingalls Shipbuilding
Laid down:	30 September 2014^[2]
Launched:	TBA
Commissioned:	Expected 2018
Status:	Authorized
General characteristics
Class & 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

PCU Paul Ignatius (DDG-117) is a future 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

↑ "Navy Names Next Two Destroyers". Navy News Service. 23 May 2013. Retrieved 23 May 2013.
↑ http://www.navy.mil/submit/display.asp?story_id=83615

Arleigh Burke-class destroyers

Flight I ships

Flight II ships

Flight IIA ships

5"/54 variant	Oscar Austin Roosevelt

5"/62 variant	Winston S. Churchill Lassen Howard Bulkeley McCampbell Shoup Mason Preble Mustin Chafee Pinckney Momsen Chung-Hoon Nitze James E. Williams Bainbridge Halsey Forrest Sherman Farragut Kidd Gridley Sampson Truxtun Sterett Dewey Stockdale Gravely Wayne E. Meyer Jason Dunham William P. Lawrence Spruance Michael Murphy John Finn Ralph Johnson Rafael Peralta Thomas Hudner Paul Ignatius Daniel Inouye Delbert D. Black

Preceded by: Kidd class
Followed by: Zumwalt class

List of destroyers of the United States Navy

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