DDG 119 completes builder's trials

PASCAGOULA, Miss. - The future guided missile USS Delbert D. Black (DDG 119) successfully completed builder’s trials Feb. 22 after spending three days underway in the Gulf of Mexico. The trials were conducted by Huntington Ingalls Industries’ (HII), Ingalls Shipbuilding in Pascagoula. The ship was previously underway for Alpha trials in December, and will be underway again in March for Acceptance trials. Delbert D. Black is configured as a Flight IIA destroyer, which enables power projection, forward presence and escort operations at sea in support of Low Intensity Conflict/Coastal and Littoral Offshore Warfare as well as open ocean conflict. DDG 119 will be equipped with the Navy’s Aegis Combat System, the world’s foremost integrated naval weapon. HII-Pascagoula is also currently in production on the future destroyers Frank E. Petersen Jr (DDG 121), Lenah H. Sutcliffe Higbee (DDG 123) and Jack H. Lucas (DDG 125), the first ship to be built in the Flight III configuration. (Source: PEO Ships 02/24/20)