USS Daniel Inouye

History
USS Jason Dunham, another Flight IIA Arleigh Burke.

Name:	USS Daniel Inouye
Namesake:	Former US senator Daniel Inouye ^[1]
Builder:	Bath Iron Works
Laid down:	31 October 2014^[2]
Launched:	TBA
Commissioned:	Expected 2018
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 × 5/62 in (127/62 mm), 2 × 25 mm, 4 × 12.7 mm guns 2 × Mk 46 triple torpedo tubes 1 × 20mm Phalanx CIWS
Aircraft carried:	2 × SH-60 Sea Hawk helicopters

PCU Daniel Inouye (DDG-118) is a future Arleigh Burke-class destroyer of the United States Navy. She is named to honor former Sen. Daniel Inouye, D-Hawaii. Inouye was awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions in Tuscany, Italy, during World War II and later became a U.S. senator. Daniel Inouye will be the 3rd of 8 planned Flight IIA "technology insertion" ships, which will contain elements of the Flight III ships projected to begin with DDG-124.

References

↑ "Navy Names Next Two Destroyers". Navy News Service. 23 May 2013. Retrieved 23 May 2013.
↑ http://www.navy.mil/submit/display.asp?story_id=84187>

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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