The American fleet was replenished with another destroyer. Today, October 4, the portal defence-blog.com He reported that the christening ceremony of the Carl M. Levin ship took place at the Bath Iron Works shipyard located in Bath (Maine).
The USS Carl M. Levin (DDG 120) will be the 70th Arleigh Burke-class destroyer in the U.S. Navy. The ship was named in honor of ex-Senator Carl Levin, who represented the state of Michigan in the Senate for 36 years, and also headed the relevant Senate Armed services Committee.
The christening ceremony of the destroyer Carl M. Levin
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Karl Levin participated in the ceremony of laying the ship in 2019, but did not live to see its commissioning. Instead, his daughters smashed a ceremonial bottle of champagne against the side of the destroyer. The USS Carl M. Levin was built in the modification of Flight IIA: Technology Insertion - a transitional version to the next generation of Flight III.
The Arleigh Burke-class destroyers have been under construction for three decades and at the same time remain one of the most high-tech warships in the world. Ships of this class are equipped with artillery and rocket launchers, anti-aircraft artillery, as well as mine-torpedo armament. In addition, each of the destroyers has a hangar for one or two helicopters (depending on the generation to which a particular ship belongs).
