ВМС США [вторая половина ХХ века и современность...2]

Может у кого есть чем дополнить, даты вступления в строй например (вроде обещали налогоплательщикам тамошним клепать по 12 ед. в год)...
ДКаВП1.

Первый из "Нимитцев" планируется в 2025 году на списание.

По "Тикондерогам" только не шибко понятно - то списывают, то нет.

Future USS Carl M. Levin (DDG-120) completed its Navy acceptance trials on Friday, General Dynamics Bath Iron Works announced.

Bath Iron Works spent three days in the Gulf of Maine operating the ship and testing its hull, mechanical and electrical systems, according to a Friday news release from the company. Acceptance trials ensure the ship is operational before delivery to the Navy.

Carl M. Levin is the next Arleigh Burke-class destroyer that Bath Iron Works is expected to deliver to the Navy. The Maine-based shipbuilding company delivered USS Daniel Inouye (DDG-118) in March 2021, about a month after it completed acceptance trials.

USS Daniel Inouye was delivered behind schedule – it was originally scheduled for a 2018 delivery – due to various delays, including a labor dispute and COVID-19 pandemic slowdown.

USS Carl M. Levin is named for Michigan’s longest-serving senator, Carl Levin, who died in 2021. Levin was a longtime chairman and ranking member of the Senate Armed Service Committee. The ship was christened in October 2021, with Levin’s three daughters serving as the ship’s sponsors.

Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro also attended the ceremony.

“The late Senator Carl Levin said that public service is in his DNA,” Del Toro said in a statement from the christening ceremony. “Senator Levin’s decisions leading the Senate Armed Services Committee shaped our nation and Navy for the better. It is my honor, on behalf of the Navy, and with his three daughters serving as sponsor, to expand his legacy by christening a namesake ship, USS Carl Levin.”

In addition to Carl Levin, Bath Iron Works is working on John Basilone (DDG-122), Harvey C. Barnum (DDG-124), Patrick Gallagher (DDG-127) and Flight III ships Louis H. Wilson, Jr. (DDG-126), William Charette (DDG-130) and Quentin Walsh (DDG-132), according to the Bath Iron Works statement.

The ship is expected to commission next year.

SECNAV Names Next Big Deck Amphib USS Fallujah

Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro named a future landing helicopter assault ship after the first and second Battle of Fallujah, the Navy announced Tuesday.

LHA-9, an America-class amphibious assault ship, will be called USS Fallujah, the Navy said in a news release. Del Toro announced the name at a promotion ceremony for Private 1st Class Chesty, the Marine Corps bulldog mascot.

“The name selection follows the tradition of naming amphibious ships after the U.S. Marine Corps battles, early U.S. sailing ships or legacy names of earlier carriers from World War II,” Del Toro said during the announcement. “It is an honor for me for our nation to memorialize the Marines, the soldiers and coalition forces that fought valiantly and those who sacrificed their lives during both battles of Fallujah.”

The two battles of Fallujah were fought in 2004 during the Iraq War. The first, occurring in April, was an effort to kill or capture insurgents thought to be responsible for the deaths of four U.S. contractors. The second, in November and December, was a U.S. attempt to retake control of Fallujah, according to the Navy announcement.

The Fallujah battles were part of Operation Phantom Fury, thought to be the bloodiest engagement of the Iraq War, with 100 coalition forces killed and another 600 injured.

The operation is also considered the “fiercest urban combat” for Marines since the Battle of Hué City in the Vietnam War. That battle lent its name to the former Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser USS Hué City (CG-66), which was decommissioned in September after 31 years in service. “Under extraordinary odds, the Marines prevailed against a determined enemy who enjoyed all the advantages of defending in an urban area,” Berger said in the statement. “The Battle of Fallujah is, and will remain, imprinted in the minds of all Marines and serves as a reminder to our Nation, and its foes, why our Marines call themselves the world’s finest.”

The Navy awarded HII’s Ingalls Shipbuilding the $2.4 billion contract to build LHA-9 in October. Ingalls is also building future USS Bougainville (LHA-8).

USS Fallujah will be the fourth America-class landing helicopter assault ship. The future USS Bougainville (LHA-8) is currently under construction at Ingalls Shipbuilding in Pascagoula, Miss.

Очередной Берк! 74? 12 декабря 2022 Джек Х.Лукас (DDG-125)готовится к началу ходовых испытаний "Альфа".

Пришла пора и с "Берками" разобраться, начнем потихонечку.

Корабли передового базирования ВМС США в Японии в 2022 г.

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First Flight III Arleigh Burke guided-missile destroyer was underway for the first-time last week for builder’s trials in the Gulf of Mexico


Jack H. Lucas (DDG-125) left Ingalls Shipbuilding on Dec. 12 for three days of sea trials before returning to the Mississippi shipyard on Thursday, according to NAVSEA.

“We are all very happy with how DDG-125 performed and we look forward to delivering this highly advanced ship to the Navy,” Ingalls Shipbuilding president Kari Wilkinson said in a statement to USNI News.

The 10,000-ton destroyer is the first to field the active electronically scanned array AN/SPY-6 Air and Missile Defense Radar that has stretched the weight and space limits of the Arleigh Burke design. Other design changes include replacing three Rolls Royce 3-megawatt generators on the Flight IIA ships with Rolls Royce’s 4-megawatt generators and adding a 4,160-volt power grid to drive the SPY-6.

“As the first Flight III ship, DDG-125 is the culmination of years of dedication and perseverance to design, build and integrate the Flight III capability of [Aegis Combat System Baseline 10], [SPY-6 Air and Missile Defense Radar] and the supporting systems such as the new electric plant and associated upgrade to the machinery control system,” Capt. Seth Miller, the DDG 51 class program manager for Program Executive Office (PEO) Ships, said in a Thursday statement.

Lucas’ keel was laid in Oct. 7, 2019, and the ship launched on June 4, 2021, according to the Naval Vessel Register. The ship is expected to commission next year. Lucas is the last ship in a 2013 10-hull multi-year destroyer deal the Navy crafted between HII and General Dynamics Bath Iron Works.

The Flight III will replace the Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruisers in the air defense role in the carrier strike group, as the legacy warships begin to leave the service. Unlike the previous Burke’s, the Flight IIIs will be an O-6 command.

The last Flight IIA to be built at Ingalls, Lenah Sutcliffe Higbee (DDG-123), delivered to the Navy on Nov. 4.

Ingalls has four other Flight III destroyers under construction – Ted Stevens (DDG-128), Jeremiah Denton (DDG-129), George M. Neal (DDG-131) and Sam Nunn (DDG-133).

Congress approves 11 battle force ships for FY-23


Congressional appropriators early Tuesday announced a deal for a $1.7 trillion omnibus spending package for Fiscal Year 2023 that allots funding for the Navy to buy 11 battle force ships.

The package allots $858 billion for national defense, matching the FY 2023 authorization bill. It’s a $45 billion increase from the $813 billion the Biden administration sought for national defense in its FY 2023 budget mission.

The defense spending bill appropriates $797.7 billion in funding, which, when including the $19 billion military construction spending bill, adds up to the $816 billion that Congressional authorizers approved for the Pentagon’s base budget in the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA)that lawmakers passed earlier this month.

The spending legislation appropriates $31.9 billion for the Navy’s shipbuilding account – an increase from the $27.9 billion the Navy asked for in its FY 2023 budget submission – so the service can buy:

• two Virginia-class submarines;
• three Flight III Arleigh Burke-class destroyers;
• one Constellation-class frigate;
• one San Antonio-class transport dock;
• two Expeditionary Fast Transport ships;
• one T-ATS 6 Navajo-class towing, salvage and rescue ship;
• one T-AO-205 John Lewis-class fleet oiler (AO).

The funding bill matches the 11 battle force ships Congressional authorizers approved in the National Defense Authorization Act, which is awaiting a signature from President Joe Biden.

Congressional appropriators included funding for the Navy to ink another multi-year deal for the Arleigh Burke-class Flight III destroyers, paving the way for the service to buy as many as 15 ships. The move follows a similar on by authorizers, who included language in the policy bill that would allow the Navy to sign another deal.

The defense appropriations legislation also allots funding for eight F/A-18E/F Super Hornets, despite the Navy’s desire to end the production line so it can invest in new technologies and modernize. Authorizers also approved funds for the Navy to buy eight F/A-18 Super Hornets.

Ex-USS Ranger, Independence, and Constellation, Bremerton Naval Shipard, WA.jpeg

В продолжение - застолбим местечко для названий и всего остального.

Заменил вложение.

Future Pathfinder-class oceanographic survey ship was named after the deep sea explorer who discovered the final resting place of RMS Titanic.


The future USNS Robert Ballard (T-AGS-67) was named by Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro named after the retired Navy commander who served as the former director of the Center for Ocean Exploration, according to a Navy news release issued Wednesday. Survey ships are typically named after explorers, marine surveyors or oceanographers, like Robert Ballard.

“I am humbled to have the U.S. Navy’s oceanographic ship, USNS Robert Ballard (T-AGS-67) as a namesake,” Ballard said in the release. “As a 17-year-old, in 1959, I went on my very first oceanographic cruise, and very early in my oceanographic career, the U.S. Navy placed a central role and continues to do so to this day. “It is indeed an honor to know that the USNS Robert Ballard will continue to explore the oceans long after I am gone.”

Ballard started his military service as a member of the Army Reserve before he requested to switch to the Navy. He started active duty service in 1967. He worked as a Navy liaison at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, located in Massachusetts, where he worked with deep-submergence vehicles.

While Ballard is known for his discovery of the Titanic, he was also the lead on the discoveries of former USS Yorktown (CV-5), former USS Quincy (CA-39) and PT-109 commanded by former President John F. Kennedy.

“Dr. Ballard’s career, explorations, research and focus on teaching the next generation of oceanographers is remarkable, and I am pleased to name T-AGS-67 in his honor,” Del Toro said in the release. “One of my enduring priorities is building a culture of warfighting excellence, and that includes lifelong learning amongst DoN personnel. The name Robert Ballard displayed across the stern of this ship will serve as an inspiration to all who see it while highlighting the results of commitment to education and exploration.”

The keel for the ship was laid in October at the then-Halter Marine shipyard in Mississippi.

“Equipped with a moon pool for unmanned vehicle deployment and retrieval, T-AGS 67 will be a multi-mission ship that will perform acoustic, biological, physical and geophysical surveys, providing much of the U.S. military’s information on the ocean environment,” reads an October statement from the Navy.

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