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Navy/USMC

First Flight III Destroyer Finishes Builder’s Trials

Monday, December 19th, 2022

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First Flight III Destroyer Finishes Builder’s Trials

Artist rendering of the first Flight III DDG-51 Arleigh Burke-class destroyer, the future USS Jack H. Lucas (DDG-125). (Image: Huntington Ingalls Industries)

The future USS Jack H. Lucas (DDG-125), the first Flight III Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer, finished builder’s trials on Dec. 15, the Navy said on Monday. Builder’s sea trials include a set of both in-port and at-sea demonstrations a shipbuilder uses to assess a new ship’s systems. Later acceptance trials are conducted for the Navy’s Board of Inspection and Survey (INSURV). The Navy said in this case it also marked the first opportunity to test the new Flight III…

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