HII segment Ingalls Shipbuilding reportedly has laid the keel of the 81st guided-missile destroyer that belongs to the Arleigh Burke class for the US Navy, the George Neal (DDG 131), in Mississippi’s Pascagoula.
DDG 131 is a Flight III vessel incorporating an advanced, electronically scanned array radar for improving missile and air defence capabilities. Besides digitized command as well as control systems, the Flight III Arleigh Burke platforms deploy electronic countermeasures, tracking and...