When it sets sail, the USS Ted Stevens will be the most powerful and advanced destroyer in the world, according to its commanding officer Capt. Mary Katey Hays.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - A new United States Navy destroyer to be christened this weekend will be the most advanced ship of its kind in the naval fleet — and the world.
“It has the Navy’s most advanced offensive and defensive weapons, the fastest computers, the best radar, the best anti-submarine warfare gear,” Hays said. “It is truly top of the line. And really the entire destroyer fleet from DDG 51 until DDG 129, that’s being built right next to ours, they’re the backbone of the fleet.”
“During his service Alaska was transformed in large part because of his commitment to Alaskans through improvements in health care, communications, transportation, education, sanitation, aviation, fisheries, mining, oil and gas development and innumerable other ways,” the Foundation wrote on their website.
On Friday, representatives of the U.S. Navy, members of the Stevens family, and some of the late senator’s friends and colleagues, met at the cafeteria at Ingalls Shipbuilding for a mast stepping ceremony. The ceremony involves placing items — as coins, pins and flags, that are sentimental to Stevens, Alaska as well as the ship’s crew that worked on the ship that will be christened Saturday. The items will be placed at the bottom of the ship’s mast during construction, similar to a time capsule.
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