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Home» News»BIW Starts Fabrication for US Navy’s 7th DDG 51 Flight III
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BIW Starts Fabrication for US Navy's 7th DDG51 Flight III Destroyer
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BIW Starts Fabrication for US Navy’s 7th DDG 51 Flight III

The U.S. Navy and General Dynamics Bath Iron Works (BIW) marked the start of fabrication for the future USS Quentin Walsh (DDG 132) with a ceremony at BIW’s Structural Fabrication Facility in East Brunswick, Maine, Nov. 16.

Xavier Vavasseur 18 Nov 2021

DDG 132 will be the seventh DDG 51 Flight III guided missile destroyer centered on the AN/SPY-6(V)1 Air and Missile Defense Radar and will incorporate upgrades to the electrical power and cooling capacity plus additional associated changes to provide greatly enhanced warfighting capability to the fleet. The Flight III baseline begins with DDGs 125-126 and continues with DDG 128 and follow on ships.

“Today we celebrated the start of fabrication of the future USS Quentin Walsh (DDG 132). The ship is named for Coast Guard Capt. Walsh, who was awarded the Navy Cross for his service during WWII. It is the third Flight III Arleigh Burke destroyer to start construction at BIW.”



BIW statement

Capt. Seth Miller, DDG 51 program manager, Program Executive Office (PEO) Ships said:

“We are engaged in a long-term competition and the future USS Quentin Walsh will provide the strategic capabilities needed to support the fleet for decades to come,”

BIW is also in production on the future Carl M. Levin (DDG 120), John Basilone (DDG 122), Harvey C. Barnum Jr. (DDG 124), Patrick Gallagher (DDG 127), Louis H. Wilson Jr. (DDG 126) and William Charette (DDG 130).

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Posted by : Xavier Vavasseur
Xavier is based in Paris, France. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Management Information Systems and a Master of Business Administration from Florida Institute of Technology (FIT). Xavier has been covering naval defense topics for nearly a decade.

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