USS Paul Ignatius

USS Jason Dunham, another Flight IIA Arleigh Burke.
History
Name:	USS Paul Ignatius
Namesake:	Paul Ignatius[1]
Builder:	Ingalls Shipbuilding
Laid down:	20 October 2015[2]
Launched:	12 November 2016[3]
Sponsored by:	Nancy W. Ignatius
Christened:	8 April 2017[4]
Commissioned:	Expected 2018
Status:	Launched
Badge:
General characteristics
Class and 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 × 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 Paul Ignatius (DDG-117) will be an 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. Ignatius had previously served as a commissioned lieutenant in the Navy during World War II. 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.

She was launched on November 12, 2016,^[3][5] and was christened on 8 April 2017.^[4]

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