USS John Basilone

	USS Arleigh Burke, lead ship of the class.
History
United States
Name	John Basilone
Namesake	John Basilone
Awarded	3 June 2013
Builder	Bath Iron Works
Laid down	10 January 2020
Launched	12 June 2022
Sponsored by	Ryan Manion; Amy Looney;
Christened	18 June 2022
Identification	Hull number: DDG-122
Motto	Honor Loyalty Sacrifice
Status	Authorized
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General characteristics
Class and type	Arleigh Burke-class destroyer
Displacement	9,217 tons (full load)
Length	513 ft (156 m)
Beam	66 ft (20 m)
Propulsion	4 × General Electric LM2500 gas turbines 100,000 shp (75,000 kW)
Speed	31 knots (57 km/h; 36 mph)
Complement	380 officers and enlisted
Armament	1 × 5 inch (127 mm)/54 caliber Mk 45 naval gun; 2 × 25 mm Mk 38 Autocannons; 4 × .50 cal (12.7 mm) machine guns; 1 × 20 mm Phalanx CIWS; 2 × Mk 32 triple torpedo tubes for Mk 46 torpedo; 96-cell Mk 41 VLS for use of:; RIM-66M Standard Missile; BGM-109 Tomahawk; RUM-139 Vertical Launch ASROC;
Aircraft carried	2 × SH-60 Seahawk helicopters
Aviation facilities	Double hangar and helipad

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.^[5] Basilone was the only enlisted Marine to receive both the Medal of Honor and the Navy Cross in World War II.^[5]

This is the second United States Navy vessel to be named after Basilone.^[5] 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.
^ "Navy destroyer bears name of decorated Marine killed in WWII". Associated Press. 18 June 2022. Retrieved 19 June 2022.
^ "USS John Basilone (DDG 122)". The Institute for Heraldry. U.S. Army. 23 March 2022. Retrieved 24 March 2022.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e "DDG-51 Arleigh Burke-class". Federation of American Scientists. FAS.org. 2 November 2016. Retrieved 9 June 2021.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Secretary Mabus Names Destroyer for Medal of Honor Recipient" (Press release). United States Navy. 16 August 2016. NNS160816-15. Retrieved 25 August 2016.

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