Gibbs and Cox to support U.S. Navy’s future DDG(X) design
American naval architecture firm Gibbs & Cox has won a NAVSEA contract to support ship design and engineering efforts for the U.S. Navy’s future destroyer known as DDG(X).
American naval architecture firm Gibbs & Cox has won a NAVSEA contract to support ship design and engineering efforts for the U.S. Navy’s future destroyer known as DDG(X).
The U.S. Navy’s Program Executive Office (PEO) Ships briefed reporters on the preliminary details for the next-generation destroyer, the DDG(X)…
The U.S. Navy’s first DDG-51 Flight III destroyer, the future USS Jack H Lucas (DDG-125) has achieved “light off” on its AEGIS Combat System. This marks the beginning of on-board system testing and crew training for the ship and its AN/SPY-6(V)1 Air and Missile Defense Radar (AMDR).

Huntington Ingalls Industries’ (HII) Ingalls Shipbuilding division officially started fabrication of the Arleigh Burke-class (DDG 51) destroyer George M. Neal (DDG 131) on Thursday, Dec. 2.
The Indian Navy is set to commission 2 vessels by the end of the month: The first Project 15B Project guided missile destroyer “Visakhapatnam” and the fourth Scorpene type submarine (Kalvari-class) “Vela”. The first Survey Vessel Large (SVL) “Sandhyak” will be launched.
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.
Huntington Ingalls Industries’ (HII) Ingalls Shipbuilding division announced the successful completion of builder’s trials for guided missile destroyer Frank E. Petersen Jr. (DDG 121).
The first DDG 51 Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer to be built in the Flight III configuration, the future Jack H. Lucas (DDG 125), was successfully launched at HII…
As part of the ongoing At-Sea-Demo/Formidable Shield 2021 exercise, the U.S. Navy Arleigh-Burke class guided-missile destroyer USS Paul Ignatius (DDG 117) fired two Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) interceptors to engage ballistic missile targets launched from the Hebrides Range, May 26 and May 30, 2021.
The future USS Carl M. Levin (DDG 120) was launched at the General Dynamics Bath Iron Works shipyard in Maine on 16 May 2021. DDG 120 is the fifth (of nine) Arleigh Burke-class, “Flight IIA: Technology Insertion” variant for the U.S. Navy.