Wearing welder helmets, Lynda Bird Johnson Robb and Luci Baines Johnson were assisted by shipbuilder Timothy Trask in welding signatures on a steel plate during a keel-laying at the ceremony at ...

Following up to this article, the Navy has continued its streak of not naming carriers after Democratic Presidents. LBJ now has a ship named after him, but a destroyer, rather than a carrier: The ...

Lyndon-B-Johnson News: US Angers China By Sailing Destroyer Through Taiwan Strait, ... USS Zumwalt (DDG 1000) and USS Michael Monsoor (DDG 1001) ...

USS Zumwalt in Yokosuka on September 26. US Navy/Seaman Darren Cordoviz The Zumwalts — Zumwalt, USS Michael Monsoor, and USS Lyndon B. Johnson, each of which cost about $8 billion — were ...

The Ingalls Shipbuilding division of Huntington Ingalls Inc has received a $41.65 million contract modification from Naval Sea Systems Command to begin combat systems availability work on the USN ...

USS Zumwalt was commissioned in October of 2016, and two others have joined the Zumwalt class roster: the USS Michael Monsoor and USS Lyndon B. Johnson. Of course, ...

Lyndon B. Johnson (DDG-1002) at Ingalls Shipbuilding in Pascagoula, Miss., on Aug. 4, 2022 USNI News Photo. This post was updated with a statement from HII.

The Navy has two other Zumwalt-class destroyers: the USS Michael Monsoor and the USS Lyndon B. Johnson. The first of the three Zumwalts built, the USS Zumwalt, cost $4.4 billion, making it the ...

President Lyndon B. Johnson, a rough-and-tumble Texan, simultaneously held the Eastern establishment in contempt and understood the need to cultivate its leaders.

The future USS Lyndon B. Johnson is the last of three stealthy destroyers in the Zumwalt class. They have wave-piercing hulls, a stealthy shape and electric propulsion.

BATH The daughters of the late President Lyndon B. Johnson traveled to Maine on Monday to celebrate a milestone in construction of a Navy destroyer bearing his name. Wearing welder helmets, Lynda ...