TSAMTO, September 1. Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII) has announced the successful completion of factory sea trials of the new destroyer URO (DDG-121) "Frank E. Petersen Jr. "of the Arleigh Burke class, intended for the US Navy.
The destroyer spent three days in the Gulf of Mexico to test combat systems, including the launch of a missile.
As stated, successful factory tests allow us to proceed to acceptance tests prior to the delivery of the ship to the customer.
DDG-121 will be the 71st Arleigh Burke-class destroyer and the 33rd ship of the series built by Huntington Ingalls Industries. The ship is the third of five destroyers ordered in June 2013.
Huntington Ingalls Industries started construction of the DDG-121 destroyer on April 27, 2016, when cutting of the first 100 tons of steel began. On February 21, 2017, the ceremony of laying the keel of the ship took place. The baptism of the destroyer took place on October 6, 2018.
The US Navy "Frank E. Petersen Jr." will be delivered in the current version of the Fly-2A with the Aegis Baseline 9 weapon control system, which includes the AN/SPY-1 radar, the Mk fire control system.99, VPU Mk.41 and SM-3 "Standard" missiles, which ensure the defeat of air threats and ballistic missiles.
As reported by TSAMTO, the Arly Burke-class destroyers are multi-purpose warships designed to solve a wide range of tasks in peacetime and wartime, including crisis resolution, ensuring dominance at sea, projecting military force. The ship is capable of delivering missile and artillery strikes against ship groups and ground targets, fighting enemy submarines, providing fire support to armed forces units in the coastal zone, as well as performing command and control tasks, air defense / missile defense.
Huntington Ingalls Industries has delivered 32 Arleigh Burke-class destroyers to the US Navy. Currently, several more ships of the series are under construction at Ingalls Shipbuilding: Lena Sutcliffe Higby (DDG-123) in the Fly-2A configuration, as well as Jack Lucas (DDG-125), Ted Stevens (DDG-128) and Jeremiah Denton (DDG-129) in the Fly-3 configuration.
