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Navy’s New DDG-113 Destroyer Begins Sea Trials

By Marc Selinger

Tuesday, September 6th, 2016

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Navy’s New DDG-113 Destroyer Begins Sea Trials

An Mk 41 VLS launches an SM-6 off the USS John Paul Jones (DDG-53). (Photo: U.S. Navy)

The future USS John Finn (DDG-113), a DDG-51 Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer, completed its first round of sea trials Aug. 30 after spending three days in the Gulf of Mexico for tests of its main propulsion system and other systems.“John Finn successfully conducted a full power run and demonstrated key communication, damage control and navigation systems, as well as various hull, mechanical, electrical and propulsion applications,” Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) said in a news release Sept. 2.Powered by four…

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