Technological advances have improved the capability of modern destroyers culminating in the Arleigh Burke (DDG 51) class replacing the older Charles F. Adams and Farragut class guided missile ...
On Thursday, the Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro announced that a dozen Arleigh Burke class guided-missile destroyers will operate beyond their 35-year expected service life.
American missiles were used to engage most of the enemy targets, but the destroyer was forced to employ the five-inch gun against one of the drones. Anyone who might have questioned why the U.S ...
According to the U.S. Navy, each Arleigh Burke-class destroyer has been “built around the Aegis Combat System,” and the vessels continue to be “the backbone of the U.S. Navy’s surface ...
The US Navy (USN) has named its latest Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer, the DDG 146. It will be known as the USS Robert Kerrey. The vessel was named after former US Senator and naval ...
That's the number of Arleigh Burke-class destroyers awarded to the shipyard but not yet delivered to the U.S. Navy at that time. A backlog of ships equals job security. But there were reasons to ...