USS Delbert D. Black
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Name: | USS Delbert D. Black |
Namesake: | First Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy Delbert Black [1] |
Builder: | Ingalls Shipbuilding |
Laid down: | 21 July 2015[2] |
Launched: | TBA |
Commissioned: | Expected 2018 |
Status: | Authorized |
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Class & 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 |
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Aircraft carried: | 2 × SH-60 Sea Hawk helicopters |
Aviation facilities: | Flight deck, Hangar bay |
PCU Delbert D. Black (DDG-119) is a future Arleigh Burke-class destroyer of the United States Navy. She is named in honor of Master Chief Petty Officer Delbert Black, the first Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy (MCPON), who died in 2000. He is remembered for establishing the role of the Navy's senior enlisted leader, and the ship naming is the culmination of a decade of advocacy by MCPONs to honor him with a combatant ship, believed[according to whom?] to be the first time in many decades that a ship has been named for an enlisted person's superior performance and impact, rather than valor or personal sacrifice.[citation needed] Delbert D. Black will be the fourth of eight planned Flight IIA "technology insertion" ships, which will contain elements of the Flight III ships projected to begin with DDG-124.
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