USS John Basilone

	USS Arleigh Burke, lead ship of the class.
History
United States
Name:	USS John Basilone
Namesake:	John Basilone
Awarded:	3 June 2013
Builder:	Bath Iron Works
Laid down:	10 January 2020[1]
Sponsored by:	Ryan Manion; Amy Looney;
Status:	Authorized
General characteristics
Class and type:	Arleigh Burke-class destroyer
Displacement:	9,200 long tons (9,300 t)
Length:	510 ft (160 m)
Draft:	33 ft (10 m)
Propulsion:	4 × General Electric LM2500-30 gas turbines, 2 shafts, 100,000 shp (75 MW)
Complement:	380 officers and enlisted
Armament:	1 × 32 cell, 1 × 64 cell Mk 41 vertical launch systems, 96 × RIM-66 SM-2, BGM-109 Tomahawk or RUM-139 VL-Asroc, missiles; 1 × 5 in (130 mm)/62, 2 × 25 mm Mk 38, 4 × .50 cal (12.7 mm) guns; 2 × Mk 46 triple torpedo tubes; 1 × 20 mm Phalanx CIWS;
Aircraft carried:	2 × MH-60R Sea Hawk helicopters
Aviation facilities:	Flight deck, Hangar bay

USS John Basilone (DDG-122) is a planned United States Navy Arleigh Burke-class Flight IIA guided missile destroyer, the 72nd overall for the class. The ship will be named for United States Marine Corps Gunnery sergeant John Basilone, who received the nation's highest military award for valor, the Medal of Honor, for heroism during the Guadalcanal Campaign in World War II.[2] Basilone was the only enlisted Marine to receive both the Medal of Honor and the Navy Cross in World War II.[2]

This is the second United States Navy vessel to be named after Basilone.[2] The first, USS Basilone (DD-824), was a Gearing-class destroyer commissioned in 1949 and decommissioned in 1977.

References

"General Dynamics Bath Iron Works Lays Keel of Future USS John Basilone (DDG 122)" (Press release). Bath Iron Works. 10 January 2020. Retrieved 3 February 2020.
"Secretary Mabus Names Destroyer for Medal of Honor Recipient" (Press release). United States Navy. 16 August 2016. NNS160816-15. Retrieved 25 August 2016.

This article includes information collected from the Naval Vessel Register, which, as a U.S. government publication, is in the public domain. The entry can be found here.

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[1] "General Dynamics Bath Iron Works Lays Keel of Future USS John Basilone (DDG 122)" (Press release). Bath Iron Works. 10 January 2020. Retrieved 3 February 2020.

[NNS_Secretary_Names_Destroyer-2] "Secretary Mabus Names Destroyer for Medal of Honor Recipient" (Press release). United States Navy. 16 August 2016. NNS160816-15. Retrieved 25 August 2016.