(Amerika) United States Navy

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Zum Bauprogramm bzw. Plan zum Bau der Arleigh Burkes Flight III:

US Navy discloses cost of its order for ten new Arleigh Burke destroyers

A month ago, the Navy contracted HII and Bath Iron Works to build ten flight III Arleigh Burke-class destroyers, which the DoD says will cost $14.5bn. [...]

Last month, the US Department of Defense (DoD) secured contracts for the construction of ten new flight III Arleigh Burke-class (DDG 51) destroyers. The timeframe for the vessels will see HII’s Ingalls Shipbuilding division construct seven destroyers – two in 2023, one in 2024, two in 2025, one in 2026, and one in 2027.

Within the same period General Dynamics Bath Iron Works (BIW) will also build three units – one ship per fiscal year in 2023, 2024, and 2026. In a contract update on 6 September, the DoD disclosed the cost for the construction programme totalling $14.58bn; although no cost breakdown between the two contractors was provided. [...]

With the growing military posture of China’s Navy testing the power of neighbouring states in the South China Sea as well as the American-led ‘Rules Based Order’, a Congressional Research Service report, published on 5 September, suggested that the US Navy’s FY2024 five-year shipbuilding plan includes a total of 55 ships, or an average of 11 per year.

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