Portions of DDG 1001 delivered

PASCAGOULA, Miss. -- Ingalls Shipbuilding has delivered the final aft peripheral vertical launch system assemblies for the Navy's second Zumwalt-class guided missile destroyer, Michael Monsoor (DDG 1001). Four assembly units make up the aft PVLS, and the first two units were delivered in July 2012. The latest two units were delivered a week early. Ingalls also builds the vessel's hangar and composite deckhouse at its composite center of excellence in Gulfport, Miss. The ships are built at General Dynamics' Bath Iron Works in Maine. (Source: Mississippi Press, 07/24/13)