List of Arleigh Burke-class destroyers

Last updated May 23, 2024

USS Arleigh Burke, a Flight I ship and the lead of her class, seen here on deployment in 2003

USS Frank E. Petersen Jr., a Flight IIA "T.I." ship, commissioned in May 2022

This is a list of Arleigh Burke-class destroyers , serving the United States Navy, including ships in active service as of September 2023^[update], as well as those currently under construction or authorized for future construction.

Ships in class

Name	Hull no.	Flight	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Commissioned	Home port	Status
Arleigh Burke	DDG 51	I	Bath Iron Works	6 December 1988	16 September 1989	4 July 1991	Rota, Spain	Active
Barry	DDG 52	I	Ingalls Shipbuilding	26 February 1990	8 June 1991	12 December 1992	Everett, Washington	Active
John Paul Jones	DDG 53	I	Bath Iron Works	8 August 1990	26 October 1991	18 December 1993	Everett, Washington	Active
Curtis Wilbur	DDG 54	I	Bath Iron Works	12 March 1991	16 May 1992	19 March 1994	San Diego, California	Active
Stout	DDG 55	I	Ingalls Shipbuilding	8 August 1991	16 October 1992	13 August 1994	Norfolk, Virginia	Active
John S. McCain	DDG 56	I	Bath Iron Works	3 September 1991	26 September 1992	2 July 1994	Everett, Washington	Active
Mitscher	DDG 57	I	Ingalls Shipbuilding	12 February 1992	7 May 1993	10 December 1994	Norfolk, Virginia	Active
Laboon	DDG 58	I	Bath Iron Works	23 March 1992	20 February 1993	18 March 1995	Norfolk, Virginia	Active
Russell	DDG 59	I	Ingalls Shipbuilding	24 July 1992	20 October 1993	20 May 1995	San Diego, California	Active
Paul Hamilton	DDG 60	I	Bath Iron Works	24 August 1992	24 July 1993	27 May 1995	San Diego, California	Active
Ramage	DDG 61	I	Ingalls Shipbuilding	4 January 1993	11 February 1994	22 July 1995	Norfolk, Virginia	Active
Fitzgerald	DDG 62	I	Bath Iron Works	9 February 1993	29 January 1994	14 October 1995	San Diego, California^[1]	Active
Stethem	DDG 63	I	Ingalls Shipbuilding	11 May 1993	17 July 1994	21 October 1995	San Diego, California	Active
Carney	DDG 64	I	Bath Iron Works	8 August 1993	23 July 1994	13 April 1996	Mayport, Florida	Active
Benfold	DDG 65	I	Ingalls Shipbuilding	27 September 1993	9 November 1994	30 March 1996	Yokosuka, Japan	Active
Gonzalez	DDG 66	I	Bath Iron Works	3 February 1994	18 February 1995	12 October 1996	Norfolk, Virginia	Active
Cole	DDG 67	I	Ingalls Shipbuilding	28 February 1994	10 February 1995	8 June 1996	Norfolk, Virginia	Active
The Sullivans	DDG 68	I	Bath Iron Works	27 July 1994	12 August 1995	19 April 1997	Mayport, Florida	Active
Milius	DDG 69	I	Ingalls Shipbuilding	8 August 1994	1 August 1995	23 November 1996	Yokosuka, Japan^[2]	Active
Hopper	DDG 70	I	Bath Iron Works	23 February 1995	6 January 1996	6 September 1997	Pearl Harbor, Hawaii	Active
Ross	DDG 71	I	Ingalls Shipbuilding	10 April 1995	22 March 1996	28 June 1997	Norfolk, Virginia	Active
Mahan	DDG 72	II	Bath Iron Works	17 August 1995	29 June 1996	14 February 1998	Norfolk, Virginia	Active
Decatur	DDG 73	II	Bath Iron Works	11 January 1996	10 November 1996	29 August 1998	San Diego, California	Active
McFaul	DDG 74	II	Ingalls Shipbuilding	26 January 1996	18 January 1997	25 April 1998	Norfolk, Virginia	Active
Donald Cook	DDG 75	II	Bath Iron Works	9 July 1996	3 May 1997	4 December 1998	Mayport, Florida	Active
Higgins	DDG 76	II	Bath Iron Works	14 November 1996	4 October 1997	24 April 1999	Yokosuka, Japan	Active
O'Kane	DDG 77	II	Bath Iron Works	8 May 1997	28 March 1998	23 October 1999	San Diego, California	Active
Porter	DDG 78	II	Ingalls Shipbuilding	2 December 1996	12 November 1997	20 March 1999	Norfolk, Virginia	Active
Oscar Austin	DDG 79	IIA^{[lower-alpha 1]}	Bath Iron Works	9 October 1997	7 November 1998	19 August 2000	Norfolk, Virginia	Active
Roosevelt	DDG 80	IIA^{[lower-alpha 1]}	Ingalls Shipbuilding	15 December 1997	10 January 1999	14 October 2000	Rota, Spain	Active
Winston S. Churchill	DDG 81	IIA^{[lower-alpha 2]}	Bath Iron Works	7 May 1998	17 April 1999	10 March 2001	Mayport, Florida	Active
Lassen	DDG 82	IIA^{[lower-alpha 2]}	Ingalls Shipbuilding	24 August 1998	16 October 1999	21 April 2001	Mayport, Florida	Active
Howard	DDG 83	IIA^{[lower-alpha 2]}	Bath Iron Works	9 December 1998	20 November 1999	20 October 2001	Yokosuka, Japan	Active
Bulkeley	DDG 84	IIA^{[lower-alpha 2]}	Ingalls Shipbuilding	10 May 1999	21 June 2000	8 December 2001	Rota, Spain	Active
McCampbell	DDG 85	IIA^{[lower-alpha 3]}	Bath Iron Works	15 July 1999	2 July 2000	17 August 2002	Yokosuka, Japan	Active
Shoup	DDG 86	IIA^{[lower-alpha 3]}	Ingalls Shipbuilding	13 December 1999	22 November 2000	22 June 2002	Yokosuka, Japan	Active
Mason	DDG 87	IIA^{[lower-alpha 3]}	Bath Iron Works	19 January 2000	23 June 2001	12 April 2003	Mayport, Florida	Active
Preble	DDG 88	IIA^{[lower-alpha 3]}	Ingalls Shipbuilding	22 June 2000	1 June 2001	9 November 2002	San Diego, California	Active
Mustin	DDG 89	IIA^{[lower-alpha 3]}	Ingalls Shipbuilding	15 January 2001	12 December 2001	26 July 2003	San Diego, California	Active
Chafee	DDG 90	IIA^{[lower-alpha 3]}	Bath Iron Works	12 April 2001	2 November 2002	18 October 2003	San Diego, California	Active
Pinckney	DDG 91	IIA^{[lower-alpha 3]}	Ingalls Shipbuilding	16 July 2001	26 June 2002	29 May 2004	San Diego, California	Active
Momsen	DDG 92	IIA^{[lower-alpha 3]}	Bath Iron Works	16 November 2001	19 July 2003	28 August 2004	Everett, Washington	Active
Chung-Hoon	DDG 93	IIA^{[lower-alpha 3]}	Ingalls Shipbuilding	14 January 2002	15 December 2002	18 September 2004	Pearl Harbor, Hawaii	Active
Nitze	DDG 94	IIA^{[lower-alpha 3]}	Bath Iron Works	20 September 2002	3 April 2004	5 March 2005	Norfolk, Virginia	Active
James E. Williams	DDG 95	IIA^{[lower-alpha 3]}	Ingalls Shipbuilding	15 July 2002	25 June 2003	11 December 2004	Norfolk, Virginia	Active
Bainbridge	DDG 96	IIA^{[lower-alpha 3]}	Bath Iron Works	7 May 2003	13 November 2004	12 November 2005	Norfolk, Virginia	Active
Halsey	DDG 97	IIA^{[lower-alpha 3]}	Ingalls Shipbuilding	13 January 2002	9 January 2004	30 July 2005	San Diego, California	Active
Forrest Sherman	DDG 98	IIA^{[lower-alpha 3]}	Ingalls Shipbuilding	7 August 2003	2 October 2004	28 January 2006	Norfolk, Virginia	Active
Farragut	DDG 99	IIA^{[lower-alpha 3]}	Bath Iron Works	9 January 2004	23 July 2005	10 June 2006	Mayport, Florida	Active
Kidd	DDG 100	IIA^{[lower-alpha 3]}	Ingalls Shipbuilding	29 April 2004	22 January 2005	9 June 2007	Everett, Washington	Active
Gridley	DDG 101	IIA^{[lower-alpha 3]}	Bath Iron Works	30 July 2004	28 December 2005	10 February 2007	Everett, Washington	Active
Sampson	DDG 102	IIA^{[lower-alpha 3]}	Bath Iron Works	20 March 2005	16 September 2006	3 November 2007	Everett, Washington	Active
Truxtun	DDG 103	IIA^{[lower-alpha 3]}	Ingalls Shipbuilding	11 April 2005	2 June 2007	25 April 2009	Norfolk, Virginia	Active
Sterett	DDG 104	IIA^{[lower-alpha 3]}	Bath Iron Works	17 November 2005	19 May 2007	9 August 2008	San Diego, California	Active
Dewey	DDG 105	IIA^{[lower-alpha 3]}	Ingalls Shipbuilding	4 October 2006	26 January 2008	6 March 2010	Yokosuka, Japan	Active
Stockdale	DDG 106	IIA^{[lower-alpha 3]}	Bath Iron Works	10 August 2006	10 May 2008	18 April 2009	San Diego, California	Active
Gravely	DDG 107	IIA^{[lower-alpha 3]}	Ingalls Shipbuilding	26 November 2007	30 March 2009	20 November 2010	Norfolk, Virginia	Active
Wayne E. Meyer	DDG 108	IIA^{[lower-alpha 3]}	Bath Iron Works	18 May 2007	18 October 2008	10 October 2009	Pearl Harbor, Hawaii	Active
Jason Dunham	DDG 109	IIA^{[lower-alpha 3]}	Bath Iron Works	11 April 2008	1 August 2009	13 November 2010	Mayport, Florida	Active
William P. Lawrence	DDG 110	IIA^{[lower-alpha 3]}	Ingalls Shipbuilding	16 September 2008	15 December 2009	4 June 2011	Pearl Harbor, Hawaii	Active
Spruance	DDG 111	IIA^{[lower-alpha 3]}	Bath Iron Works	14 May 2009	6 June 2010	1 October 2011	San Diego, California	Active
Michael Murphy	DDG 112	IIA^{[lower-alpha 3]}	Bath Iron Works	18 June 2010	7 May 2011	6 October 2012	Pearl Harbor, Hawaii	Active
John Finn	DDG 113	IIA Restart	Ingalls Shipbuilding	5 November 2013	28 March 2015^[3]	15 July 2017	Yokosuka, Japan	Active
Ralph Johnson	DDG 114	IIA Restart	Ingalls Shipbuilding	12 September 2014	12 December 2015	24 March 2018^[4]	Yokosuka, Japan	Active
Rafael Peralta	DDG 115	IIA Restart	Bath Iron Works	30 October 2014	1 November 2015^[5]	29 July 2017^[6]	Yokosuka, Japan	Active
Thomas Hudner	DDG 116	IIA Technology Insertion	Bath Iron Works	16 November 2015	23 April 2017	1 December 2018^[7]	Mayport, Florida^[8]	Active
Paul Ignatius	DDG 117	IIA Technology Insertion	Ingalls Shipbuilding	20 October 2015	12 November 2016	27 July 2019	Rota, Spain	Active
Daniel Inouye	DDG 118	IIA Technology Insertion	Bath Iron Works	14 May 2018^[9]	27 October 2019	8 December 2021	Pearl Harbor, Hawaii	Active
Delbert D. Black	DDG 119	IIA Technology Insertion	Ingalls Shipbuilding	1 June 2016	8 September 2017^[10]	26 September 2020	Mayport, Florida	Active
Carl M. Levin ^[11]	DDG 120	IIA Technology Insertion	Bath Iron Works	1 February 2019	16 May 2021	24 June 2023	Pearl Harbor, Hawaii	Active
Frank E. Petersen Jr. ^[12]	DDG 121	IIA Technology Insertion	Ingalls Shipbuilding	21 February 2017	13 July 2018	14 May 2022^[13]	Pearl Harbor, Hawaii	Active
John Basilone ^[14]	DDG 122	IIA Technology Insertion	Bath Iron Works	10 January 2020	12 June 2022	Tentatively estimated for April 2024^[15]	Mayport, Florida	Launched
Lenah Sutcliffe Higbee ^[16]	DDG 123	IIA Technology Insertion	Ingalls Shipbuilding	14 November 2017	27 January 2020	13 May 2023^[17]	San Diego, California	Active
Harvey C. Barnum Jr. ^[11]	DDG 124	IIA Technology Insertion	Bath Iron Works	6 April 2021	3 October 2023	Tentatively estimated for May 2025	Mayport, Florida	Launched
Jack H. Lucas ^[18]	DDG 125	III	Ingalls Shipbuilding	8 November 2019	4 June 2021^[19]	7 October 2023^[20]	San Diego, California	Active
Louis H. Wilson Jr. ^[18]	DDG 126	III	Bath Iron Works	16 May 2023^[21]				Keel laid
Patrick Gallagher ^[22]	DDG 127	IIA Technology Insertion^{[lower-alpha 4]}	Bath Iron Works	30 March 2022			Norfolk, Virginia	Keel laid
Ted Stevens ^[23]	DDG 128	III	Ingalls Shipbuilding	9 March 2022	15 August 2023		Norfolk, Virginia	Launched
Jeremiah Denton ^[24]	DDG 129	III	Ingalls Shipbuilding	16 August 2022				Keel laid
William Charette ^[25]	DDG 130	III	Bath Iron Works					Under construction^[26]
George M. Neal ^[27]	DDG 131	III	Ingalls Shipbuilding	16 December 2023				Keel laid
Quentin Walsh ^[28]	DDG 132	III	Bath Iron Works					Under construction^[29]
Sam Nunn ^[30]	DDG 133	III	Ingalls Shipbuilding					Under construction^[31]
John E. Kilmer ^[32]	DDG 134	III	Bath Iron Works					Approved for construction^[33]
Thad Cochran	DDG 135	III	Ingalls Shipbuilding					Approved for construction^[34]
Richard G. Lugar	DDG 136	III	Bath Iron Works					Approved for construction^[35]
John F. Lehman ^[36]	DDG 137	III	Ingalls Shipbuilding					Approved for construction^[37]
J. William Middendorf ^[38]	DDG 138	III	Bath Iron Works					Approved for construction^[39]
Telesforo Trinidad ^[40]	DDG 139	III	Ingalls Shipbuilding					Approved for construction^[41]
Thomas G. Kelley ^[42]	DDG 140	III	Bath Iron Works					Announced
Ernest E. Evans ^[43]^[44]	DDG 141	III	Ingalls Shipbuilding					Authorized
Charles J. French ^[45]	DDG 142	III	Ingalls Shipbuilding					Authorized
Richard J. Danzig ^[46]	DDG-143	III	Ingalls Shipbuilding					Authorized
Michael G. Mullen ^[47]	DDG-144	III	Bath Iron Works					Authorized
	DDG-145	III

Notes

1 2 Flight IIA variant with 5"/54-caliber gun
1 2 3 4 Flight IIA Variant with 5"/62-caliber gun
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 Flight IIA Variant with 5"/62-caliber gun, and one 20 mm CIWS (Ewing 2008)
↑ The DDG-127 contract was awarded separately at a later date. Though two ships preceding her, DDG-125 & DDG-126 had begun the Flight III series, DDG-127 was designated as a Flight IIA Technology Insertion build (Department of Defense 2017). The Flight III series continued with DDG-128.

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[var-5/54-3] 1 2 Flight IIA variant with 5"/54-caliber gun

[var-5/62-4] 1 2 3 4 Flight IIA Variant with 5"/62-caliber gun

[var-5/62-CIWS-5] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 Flight IIA Variant with 5"/62-caliber gun, and one 20 mm CIWS (Ewing 2008)

[DDG-127-26] The DDG-127 contract was awarded separately at a later date. Though two ships preceding her, DDG-125 & DDG-126 had begun the Flight III series, DDG-127 was designated as a Flight IIA Technology Insertion build (Department of Defense 2017). The Flight III series continued with DDG-128.

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