USS Louis H. Wilson Jr. (DDG-126)

USS Louis H. Wilson Jr. (DDG-126)

255px Graphical depiction of the DDG-126.
History
United States
Name:	U.S.S. LOUIS H. WILSON JR.
Namesake:	Commandant of the Marine Corps Louis H. Wilson
Builder:	Bath Iron Works,
Commissioned:	2023 (Expected)
Status:	Authorized
General characteristics
Class & type:	Arleigh Burke-class destroyer
Displacement:	9,200 long tons (9,300 t)
Length:	510 feet (160m)
Beam:	66 ft (20 m)
Draft:	33 feet (10m)
Propulsion:	4 × General Electric LM2500-30 gas turbines, 2 shafts, 100,000 shp (75 MW)
Speed:	35+ knots
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, RIM-162 ESSM, 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
Armor:	Kevlar-type armor with steel hull. Numerous passive surivivability meausures.
Aircraft carried:	2 × SH-60 Sea Hawk helicopters
Aviation facilities:	Flight Deck and Hangar Bay

USS Louis H. Wilson Jr. (DDG-126) will be an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer of the United States Navy. She is the third of the Flight III variants and 76th overall in the class. She is named after U.S. Marine Corps General Louis H. Wilson,Jr., recipient of the Congressional Medal of Honor. On 17 September 2016 she was named by Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus.

Namesake

General Louis H. Wilson, Jr.

Louis Hugh Wilson, Jr. (1920-2005) was the 26th Commandant of the Marine Corps from 1975-1979, and a recipient of the Medal of Honor during World War II. Born in Brandon, Mississippi, He held a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1941 from Millsaps College, Jackson, Mississippi -- where he participated in football and track. Wilson was also an active member of the Alpha Iota Chapter of Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity, initiated on February 23, 1939. General Wilson was the first Marine Corps Commandant to serve full-time on the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

External links

• [1]- SECNAV Mabus names DDG-125, DDG-126
• [2]- NavSourceOnline, DDG-126
• [3]- U.S. Navy Website
• [4]- List of Navy DDGs
• [5]- DDG-125 & DDG-126