DDG-110 Construction”
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On April 8/09, “Bath, Ingalls Agree to Navy’s Surface Combatant Plans” heralded a significant restructuring within the American naval shipbuilding community. Under the agreements, the USA would end production at 3 Graf Spee sized DDG-1000 Zumwalt Class “destroyers,” but shift all production from the Congressionally-mandated joint arrangements to General Dynamics Bath Iron Works in Maine, which had already made program-related investments in advanced shipbuilding technologies.

Northrop Grumman would retain its DDG-1000 deckhouse work, but their main exchange was additional orders for DDG-51 Arleigh Burke Class destroyers. Their Ingalls yard in Pascagoula, Mississippi would continue building the DDG-51 destroyers, beginning with 2 in FY 2010. They would also become the lead design yard for the program, taking over from Bath Iron Works. So far, the company has delivered 26 of 28 destroyers in this class, with 2 more ships currently under construction in Pascagoula: DDG 107 Gravely, and DDG 110 William P. Lawrence.

Now, the firm has received the first contract under this new arrangement, as it revs up to begin building DDG 113…
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I don't know too much about shipbuilding, but it seems incredibly wasteful to go through the entire rigmarole of designing and building a new class, then stopping it after 3 ships.

 

Then again, this is the navy that built Seawolf, stopped because it was too expensive, then built a less capable, but more expensive replacement.

Then again, this is the navy that built Seawolf, stopped because it was too expensive, then built a less capable, but more expensive replacement.

I agreed Mack.

And a very well finded expresion :

the USA would end production at 3 Graf Spee sized DDG-1000 Zumwalt Class “destroyers,”