The future USS Daniel Inouye (DDG-118) successfully completed acceptance trials February 4 after spending a day underway off the coast of Maine.

The Board of Inspection and Survey (INSURV) inspected the ship during a series of demonstrations while pier side and underway. Many of the ship’s onboard systems, including navigation, damage control, mechanical and electrical systems, combat systems, communications, and propulsion applications, were tested to validate performance and met or exceeded U.S. Navy specifications.
«Following an outstanding Combined Alpha and Bravo trials this past December, DDG-118 performed superbly during the ship’s Acceptance Trial earlier this week», said Captain Seth Miller, DDG-51 class program manager, Program Executive Office (PEO) Ships. «The Navy and industry team are ready to deliver a highly capable multi-mission warship to the fleet within the next few weeks».
Daniel Inouye is a Flight IIA destroyer, equipped with the Aegis Baseline 9 Combat System, which includes Integrated Air and Missile Defense capability and enhanced Ballistic Missile Defense capabilities. This system delivers quick reaction time, high firepower, and increased electronic countermeasures capability against a variety of threats.
Following delivery, Daniel Inouye will be the 37th Arleigh Burke (DDG-51) class destroyer to be delivered by BIW. The shipyard is also in production on the future Arleigh Burke-class destroyers USS Carl M. Levin (DDG-120), USS John Basilone (DDG-122), USS Harvey C. Barnum (DDG-124), USS Patrick Gallagher (DDG-127), and Flight III ships, USS Louis H. Wilson, Jr. (DDG-126), and USS William Charette (DDG-130), as well as the future Zumwalt-class destroyer, USS Lyndon B. Johnson (DDG-1002).
As one of the Defense Department’s largest acquisition organizations, Program Executive Office Ships (PEO Ships) is responsible for executing the development and procurement of all destroyers, amphibious ships, special mission and support ships, and special warfare craft.
CHARACTERISTICS
Length Overall | 525 feet/160 m |
Beam – Waterline | 65.6 feet/20 m |
Draft | 32.8 feet/10 m |
Displacement – Full Load | 9,217 tons/9,363 metric tons |
Power Plant | 4 General electric LM 2500-30 gas turbines; 2 shafts; 2 CRP (Contra-Rotating) propellers; 100,000 shaft horsepower/75,000 kW |
Speed | in excess of 30 knots/34.5 mph/55.5 km/h |
Range | 4,400 NM/8,149 km at 20 knots/23 mph/37 km/h |
Crew | 380 total: 32 Officers, 27 CPO (Chief Petty Officer), 321 OEM |
Surveillance | AN/SPY-6 Air and Missile Defense Radar (Raytheon Company) and Aegis Combat System (Lockheed Martin); SPS-73(V) Navigation; SPS-67(V)3 Surface Search; 3 SPG-62 Illuminator; SQQ-89(V)6 sonar incorporating SQS-53C hull mounted and SQR-19 towed array sonars used with Mark-116 Mod 7 ASW fire control system |
Electronics/Countermeasures | SLQ-32(V)3; Mark-53 Mod 0 Decoy System; Mark-234 Decoy System; SLQ-25A Torpedo Decoy; SLQ-39 Surface Decoy; URN-25 TACAN; UPX-29 IFF System; Kollmorgen Mark-46 Mod 1 Electro-Optical Director |
Aircraft | 2 embarked SH-60 helicopters ASW operations; RAST (Recovery Assist, Secure and Traverse) |
Armament | 2 Mark-41 Vertical Launching System (VLS) with 96 Standard, Vertical Launch ASROC (Anti-Submarine Rocket) & Tomahawk ASM (Air-to-Surface Missile)/LAM (Loitering Attack Missile); 5-in (127-mm)/54 (62) Mark-45 gun; 2 (1) CIWS (Close-In Weapon System); 2 Mark-32 triple 324-mm torpedo tubes for Mark-46 or Mark-50 ASW torpedos |
GUIDED MISSILE DESTROYERS LINEUP
Flight IIA: Technology Insertion
Ship | Yard | Launched | Commissioned | Homeport |
DDG-116 Thomas Hudner | GDBIW | 04-23-17 | 12-01-18 | Mayport, Florida |
DDG-117 Paul Ignatius | HIIIS | 11-12-16 | 07-27-19 | Mayport, Florida |
DDG-118 Daniel Inouye | GDBIW | 10-27-19 | Pearl Harbor, Hawaii | |
DDG-119 Delbert D. Black | HIIIS | 09-08-17 | 09-26-20 | Mayport, Florida |
DDG-120 Carl M. Levin | GDBIW | |||
DDG-121 Frank E. Peterson Jr. | HIIIS | 07-13-18 | ||
DDG-122 John Basilone | GDBIW | |||
DDG-123 Lenah H. Sutcliffe Higbee | HIIIS | 01-27-20 | ||
DDG-124 Harvey C. Barnum Jr. | GDBIW | |||
DDG-127 Patrick Gallagher | GDBIW |