USS Carl M. Levin

History
USS Arleigh Burke (DDG-51), lead ship of the class.
United States
Name:	USS Carl M. Levin
Namesake:	Carl Levin
Builder:	Bath Iron Works
Status:	Authorized
General characteristics
Class and type:	Arleigh Burke-class destroyer
Displacement:	9,200 long tons (9,300 t)
Length:	510 ft (160 m)
Draft:	33 ft (10 m)
Propulsion:	4 × General Electric LM2500-30 gas turbines, 2 shafts, 100,000 shp (75 MW)
Complement:	380 officers and enlisted
Armament:	1 × 32 cell, 1 × 64 cell Mk 41 vertical launch systems, 96 × RIM-66 SM-2, BGM-109 Tomahawk or RUM-139 VL-Asroc, missiles 1 × 5-inch/62 (127 mm/62), 2 × 25 mm, 4 × 12.7 mm guns 2 × Mk 46 triple torpedo tubes 1 × 20 mm Phalanx CIWS
Aircraft carried:	2 × SH-60 Sea Hawk helicopters
Aviation facilities:	Flight deck, Hangar bay

PCU Carl M. Levin (DDG-120) is a planned United States Navy Arleigh Burke-class Flight IIA guided missile destroyer, the 70th overall for the class. The ship was named for Carl Levin, a former United States Senator and Chairman of the United States Senate Committee on Armed Services. The contract for the ship, along with the name, was first announced in a press release from General Dynamics, parent company of Bath Iron Works, on 31 March 2016.^[1]

References

↑ "DDG-120 contract awarded to GD/BIW".

Arleigh Burke-class destroyers

Flight I ships

Flight II ships

Flight IIA ships

5"/54 variant	Oscar Austin Roosevelt

5"/62 variant	Winston S. Churchill Lassen Howard Bulkeley McCampbell Shoup Mason Preble Mustin Chafee Pinckney Momsen Chung-Hoon Nitze James E. Williams Bainbridge Halsey Forrest Sherman Farragut Kidd Gridley Sampson Truxtun Sterett Dewey Stockdale Gravely Wayne E. Meyer Jason Dunham William P. Lawrence Spruance Michael Murphy John Finn Ralph Johnson Rafael Peralta Thomas Hudner Paul Ignatius Daniel Inouye Delbert D. Black Carl M. Levin Frank E. Petersen Jr.

Flight III ships

Harvey C. Barnum Jr.

Preceded by: Kidd class
Followed by: Zumwalt class

List of destroyers of the United States Navy

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