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USS Truxtun DDG-103
Arleigh Burke-class (flight IIA) USN ship
This
31" long Arleigh-Burke-class destroyer flight
IIA model
was commissioned by the ship's sponsor in 2018.
Truxtun's keel was laid down on 11 April 2005.
About 2 years later, she was launched. The ship was
christened on 2 June 2007 at NGSS Ingalls in Pascagoula,
Mississippi. The commissioning ceremony was held on 25
April 2009 in Charleston, South Carolina with Commander
Timothy Weber as her first commanding officer.
In
2012, the US Navy contracted with L3 Technologies to
develop a fuel-efficient hybrid electric drive train for
34 Flight IIA Arleigh Burke destroyers. The system
allowed an electric motor to drive the ships up to 13
knots. Truxtun was the first ship fitted with the
permanent magnet motor system, in 2012. In 2018, the
trial program to install hybrid electric drives was
cancelled, leaving Truxtun as the only ship so fitted.
On 6
March 2014, Truxtun departed Greece and sailed to the
Black Sea to conduct training with the Romanian and
Bulgarian navies. On 5 March 2014, Turkish authorities
gave permission to a U.S. Navy warship to pass through
the Bosphorus Straits. This modest U.S. show of force (Truxtun
and Donald Cook) to the Black Sea worked as a strategic
reassurance for former Soviet republics and satellite
states concerned about the annexation of Crimea by
Russia.
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This
primarily wooden model of the USS Truxtun DDG-103
was commissioned by the ship's sponsor in 2018. It
is 31" long x 11" tall (1/200 scale).
If you want a larger
model, check out
this 42" long commissioned by the defense technology
Leidos.
If you want a different ship, let us know if your ship is
flight I, flight II,
flight IIA,
flight III.
We
build Arleigh Burke models at the following scales:
18", 31", 42", and 62"
long.
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Learn more about the USS
Truxtun here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Truxtun_(DDG-103)
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