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 ...

like the Flight III DDG-51 design, is to include ninety-six standard Vertical Launch System (VLS) cells, with an ability to incorporate twelve large missile launch cells in place of thirty-two of ...

Currently, the Navy’s Arleigh Burke-class (DDG-51) and Zumwalt-class (DDG-1000) make up the service’s destroyer class.

What has been described as the most transformational warship in the U.S. Navy has been transformed again. USS Zumwalt (DDG ...

The DDG 51 Flight III upgrade was designed to be centered on the AN/SPY-6(V)1 Air and Missile Defense Radar (AMDR) system that provides vastly increased capability over Flight IIA ships.

The Department’s decision to truncate the DDG 1000 program and continue building DDG 51 class ships triggered a Nunn McCurdy critical cost breach due primarily to a reduction in total ...