| History | |
|---|---|
| Name | Richard G. Lugar |
| Namesake | Richard Lugar |
| Awarded | 27 September 2018 [1] |
| Builder | Bath Iron Works |
| Identification | Hull number: DDG-136 |
| Status | Under construction |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Arleigh Burke-class destroyer |
| Displacement | 9,217 tons (full load) [2] |
| Length | 510 ft (160 m) [2] |
| Beam | 66 ft (20 m) [2] |
| Propulsion | 4 × General Electric LM2500 gas turbines 100,000 shp (75,000 kW) [2] |
| Speed | 31 knots (57 km/h; 36 mph) [2] |
| Complement | 380 officers and enlisted |
| Armament |
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| Armor | Kevlar-type armor with steel hull. Numerous passive survivability measures. |
| Aircraft carried | 2 × MH-60R Seahawk helicopters |
| Aviation facilities | Double hangar and helipad |
USS Richard G. Lugar (DDG-136) is the planned 86th Arleigh Burke-class (Flight III) Aegis guided missile destroyer of the United States Navy. [1] She was officially named by Secretary of the Navy Richard V. Spencer in honor of Richard G. Lugar, a Republican U.S. Senator who represented Indiana from 1977 to 2013, during a ceremony on November 18, 2019 at the Indiana War Memorial in Indianapolis. [3] [4] Before he was a senator, Lugar served in the U.S. Navy from 1957 to 1960 and achieved the rank of lieutenant junior grade.
The start of fabrication ceremony was held at a General Dynamics Bath Iron Works facility in Brunswick, Maine, on 21 August 2024. [5]