Scale:1/220
Length:27.5"

USS Arleigh Burke (DDG-51), named for Admiral Arleigh Albert Burke, USN (1901-1996), is the lead ship of her class of guided missile destroyers. She was laid down by Bath Iron Works at Bath, Maine on 6 December 1988, launched on 16 September 1989 by Mrs. Arleigh Burke. The Admiral himself was present at her commissioning ceremony on 4 July 1991, held on the waterfront in downtown Norfolk.