USS Carl M. Levin

USS Carl M. Levin (DDG-120) will be a United States Navy Arleigh Burke-class Flight IIA guided missile destroyer, the 70th overall for the class. The ship will be named for Carl Levin, a former United States Senator and Chairman of the United States Senate Committee on Armed Services.[1]

USS Arleigh Burke (DDG-51), lead ship of the class.
History
United States
Name:	Carl M. Levin
Namesake:	Carl Levin[1]
Awarded:	14 March 2014
Builder:	Bath Iron Works[1]
Laid down:	1 February 2019[2]
Motto:	Tenacious in the Fight
Status:	Under construction
Badge:
General characteristics
Class and type:	Arleigh Burke-class destroyer
Displacement:	9,200 long tons (9,300 t)
Length:	510 ft (160 m)
Draft:	33 ft (10 m)
Propulsion:	4 × General Electric LM2500-30 gas turbines, 2 shafts, 100,000 shp (75 MW)
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 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
Aircraft carried:	2 × SH-60 Sea Hawk helicopters
Aviation facilities:	Flight deck, Hangar bay

The contract for the ship, along with the name, was first announced in a press release from General Dynamics, parent company of Bath Iron Works, on 31 March 2016.[3] The official designation of DDG 120 as the Carl M. Levin by Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus was announced on 11 April 2016.[1]