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DDG-119 Finishes Builder’s Trials, Acceptance Trials Next

Monday, February 24th, 2020

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DDG-119 Finishes Builder’s Trials, Acceptance Trials Next

The future USS Delbert D. Black (DDG-119) Arleigh Burke-class destroyer conducting builders trials in February 2020. (Photo: U.S. Navy)

The Arleigh Burke-class destroyer future USS Delbert D. Black (DDG-119) finished builder’s trials on Feb. 22, the Navy said Monday. DDG-119’s shipbuilder Huntington Ingalls Industries’ [HII] Ingalls Shipbuilding Division conducted the trials while the ship was underway in the Gulf of Mexico. The shipyard built the ship in its Pascagoula, Miss., facility. The Delbert D. Black was previously underway in December for Alpha trials and will again be underway in March for planned acceptance trials, to be conducted by the…

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