{"id":140980,"date":"2025-08-13T00:13:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T00:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/140980\/"},"modified":"2025-08-13T00:13:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T00:13:10","slug":"baes-san-diego-shipyard-gets-lift-with-64-million-contract-to-repair-navy-destroyer-san-diego-union-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/140980\/","title":{"rendered":"BAE\u2019s San Diego shipyard gets lift with $64 million contract to repair Navy destroyer \u2013 San Diego Union-Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Defense Department has awarded BAE Systems\u2019 shipyard in San Diego a $64.1 million contract for repairs, maintenance and upgrades on the USS O\u2019Kane, a Burke-class destroyer that helped protect the USS Abraham Lincoln carrier battle group during a long deployment that ended in February.<\/p>\n<p>The O\u2019Kane made headlines last year when it came under attack by Iran-backed Houthi rebels, who fired missiles at the ship and a second San Diego destroyer, the USS Stockdale, while they were escorting merchant vessels in the Middle East. Both destroyers successfully repelled the attack.<\/p>\n<p>The O\u2019Kane was commissioned in 1999, making it one of the older Burke destroyers in the fleet.<\/p>\n<p>Originally Published: August 12, 2025 at 3:39 PM PDT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Defense Department has awarded BAE Systems\u2019 shipyard in San Diego a $64.1 million contract for repairs, maintenance&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":140981,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5134],"tags":[5229,1582,276,1370,728,1802,50,3549,7264,7289,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-140980","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-latest-headlines","12":"tag-local-news","13":"tag-military","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-san-diego","16":"tag-sandiego","17":"tag-top-stories-sdut","18":"tag-united-states","19":"tag-united-states-of-america","20":"tag-unitedstates","21":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","22":"tag-us","23":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115018570389770227","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}