USS Paul Ignatius
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| US Navy 101123-N-5292M-186 The newly commissioned guided-missile destroyer USS Jason Dunham (DDG 109) arrives to its new homeport of Naval Station
USS Jason Dunham, another Flight IIA Arleigh Burke.
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| Name: | PCU Paul Ignatius |
| Namesake: | Former US Secretary of the Navy Paul Ignatius [1] |
| Builder: | Ingalls Shipbuilding |
| Laid down: | 30 September 2014[2] |
| Launched: | TBA |
| Commissioned: | Expected 2018 |
| Status: | Authorized |
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| Class & type: | Arleigh Burke-class destroyer, Flight IIA |
| 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 |
PCU Paul Ignatius (DDG-117) is a future Arleigh Burke-class destroyer of the United States Navy. She is named for Paul Ignatius who served as United States Secretary of the Navy under President Lyndon Johnson from 1967 to 1969. Paul Ignatius will be the 2nd of 8 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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