USS Daniel Inouye

History
USS Jason Dunham, another Flight IIA Arleigh Burke.

Name:	USS Daniel Inouye
Namesake:	Daniel Inouye^[1]
Builder:	Bath Iron Works
Laid down:	31 October 2014^[2]
Launched:	TBA
Commissioned:	Expected 2018
Status:	Authorized
General characteristics
Class and type:	Arleigh Burke-class destroyer
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 × 5 in (130 mm)/62, 2 × 25 mm Mk 38, 4 × .50 cal (12.7 mm) guns 2 × Mk 46 triple torpedo tubes 1 × 20mm Phalanx CIWS
Aircraft carried:	2 × SH-60 Sea Hawk helicopters

USS Daniel Inouye (DDG-118) will be an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer of the United States Navy. The ship will be named to honor former United States Senator Daniel Inouye of Hawaii.^[1] Inouye was awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions in Tuscany, Italy, during World War II.^[1]

Daniel Inouye will be the third of eight planned Flight IIA "technology insertion" ships, which will contain elements of the Flight III ships projected to begin with DDG-124.

References

1 2 3 "Navy Names Next Two Destroyers" (Press release). Navy News Service. 23 May 2013. NNS130523-13. Retrieved 25 August 2016.
↑ "Fabrication Begins for the Future USS Daniel Inouye" (Press release). Navy News Service. 31 October 2014. NNS141031-13. Retrieved 25 August 2016.

Arleigh Burke-class destroyers

Flight I ships

Flight II ships

Flight IIA ships

5"/54 variant

5"/62 variant

Flight III ships

Related classes: Kongō
Atago
Sejong the Great

Preceded by: Kidd class
Followed by: Zumwalt class

List of destroyers of the United States Navy

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