The US Navy has commissioned a new Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer ship for the DDG 51 program. The guided missile destroyer will be named after Paul Robert Ignatius, who served in the Navy in WWII and acted as assistant secretary of defence for installations and logistics under the Lyndon B ...
Bath Iron Works, a business unit of General Dynamics, has been awarded a US Navy contract to construct the fifth DDG 51 destroyer as part of a multi-year award announced in September 2018. During the multi-year competition, Bath Iron Works (BIW) was officially awarded four ships. Subsequently, the US Navy held ...