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USS Ted Stevens, Second Flight III Destroyer, Departs Ingalls for Norfolk

The transit signals momentum in the Navy’s Flight III rollout featuring SPY-6 radar with Aegis Baseline 10.

9,700-ton battleship with advanced combat systems sets sail.

Overview

  • The future USS Ted Stevens (DDG 128), which left Ingalls Shipbuilding on Monday, is sailing to its Norfolk, Virginia homeport before a planned commissioning in Whittier, Alaska.
  • The ship is the second Flight III Arleigh Burke-class destroyer from Ingalls and carries the AN/SPY-6(V)1 radar and the Aegis Baseline 10 combat system.
  • The destroyer completed builder’s trials in the Gulf of Mexico and was delivered to the Navy in December, and it is named for the late Alaska Senator Ted Stevens.
  • HII says Ingalls has five more Flight III destroyers under construction and will shift more than 2.5 million work hours in 2026 to partner yards to speed assembly and delivery.
  • Ingalls has delivered 36 Arleigh Burke-class ships to date, and the long-running class remains the Navy’s main multi-mission surface combatant for air, missile, sub-surface, and strike roles.