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Navy Accepts DDG-121 Destroyer

Wednesday, December 1st, 2021

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Navy Accepts DDG-121 Destroyer

The Huntington Ingalls Industries-built future USS Frank E. Petersen Jr. (DDG-121) Flight IIA Arleigh Burke-class destroyer undergoing builder’s trials in the Gulf of Mexico in August 2021. (Photo: HII).

The Navy accepted delivery of the future USS Frank E. Petersen Jr. (DDG-121) Arleigh Burke-class Flight IIA guided-missile destroyer on November 30 from shipbuilder Huntington Ingalls Industries [HII]. HII built the vessel at its Ingalls Shipbuilding division in Pascagoula, Miss. Delivery came over two months after the Navy completed acceptance trials, when the Board of Inspection and Survey inspected the ship while performing a set of demonstrations to validate performance of various systems (Defense Daily, Sept. 17). The Navy noted…

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