![VIDEO CLIP: Ingalls introduces DDG 128 Future USS Ted Stevens (DDG 128) on the water](https://www.marinelog.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Tedstevenslaunch.jpg)
Future USS Ted Stevens (DDG 128) is the Navy’s 3rd Flight III Arleigh Burke- course assisted rocket destroyer. [Photo:HII]
Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE: HII) reports that its Ingalls Shipbuilding department in Pascagoula, Miss., effectively released of the Navy’s 3rd Flight III Arleigh Burke- course assisted rocket destroyer, the future USS Ted Stevens (DDG 128) on August 15.
Prior to the launch, the ship was converted from a land degree center to a drifting completely dry dock utilizing translation railcars to sustain it. Once in the completely dry dock, the ship is prepared to introduce.
![VIDEO CLIP: Ingalls introduces DDG 128 Future USS Ted Stevens (DDG 128) prior to launch](https://www.marinelog.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/DDG-128-launch-featured.jpg)
“The translation and launch are always important milestones for our shipbuilders and the life of a ship,” Ingalls Shipbuilding DDG program supervisor Ben Barnett claimed. “Our team has put in a tremendous amount of work leading up to the launch, and I am proud to see them bring DDG 128 one step closer to completion.”
Ted Stevens is the 76th Arleigh Burke- course ship, and its name honors previous united stateSen Ted Stevens, that worked as a pilot in World War II and later on as a united state legislator standing for Alaska.
Ingalls has actually supplied 35 Arleigh Burke- course destroyers to the united state Navy consisting of the initial Flight III, Jack H. Lucas (DDG 125), in June of this year. In enhancement, Ingalls Shipbuilding has 4 Flight IIIs presently incomplete and was granted an added 6 destroyers previously this month. Ted Stevens will certainly be christened Saturday,Aug 19, while Jeremiah Denton (DDG 129), George M. Neal (DDG 131) and Sam Nunn ( DDG 133) are likewise incomplete at the shipyard.
Flight III Arleigh Burke-class destroyers integrate a variety of layout alterations that jointly offer substantially boosted capacity. DDG 125 consists of the AN/SPY -6( V) 1 Air and Missile Defense Radar (AMDR) and the Aegis Baseline 10 Combat System.