USS John Basilone

USS Arleigh Burke (DDG-51), lead ship of the class.
History
United States
Name	USS John Basilone
Namesake	John Basilone
Awarded	3 June 2013
Builder	Bath Iron Works
Status	Authorized
General characteristics
Class and type	Template:Sclass-
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 × SH-60 Sea Hawk helicopters
Aviation facilities	Flight deck, Hangar bay

USS John Basilone (DDG-122) is a planned United States Navy Template:Sclass- 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. Basilone was the only enlisted Marine to receive both the Medal of Honor and the Navy Cross in World War II.

This is the second United States Navy vessel to be named after Basilone. The first, USS Basilone (DD-824), was a Template:Sclass- commissioned in 1949 and decommissioned in 1977.

References

• 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.