Introducing a new class of warship can be fraught with pain, and the first ship is always the hardest – almost always behind schedule and over budget. And trying something new and transformational is ...

The Navy last week approved plans to keep the guided-missile destroyer USS Arleigh Burke in service another five years, meaning the first-in-class ship will have sailed for four decades before its ...

General Dynamics Bath Iron Works announced on 1 August 2025 that the US Navy has exercised an option to add an additional Arleigh Burke-class (DDG 51) guided-missile destroyer to the multi-year ...

SHIPBOARD COMMUNICATION: Boeing has been awarded a $5.4 million contract by the U.S. Navy to produce an updated shipboard network communications system for the USS Arleigh Burke guided-missile ...

ARLINGTON, Va. — The Navy has named its newest Arleigh Burke class guided missile destroyer the Mason, the third time the service has used that name. When Sen. Olympian Snowe, R-Maine, gave the ...

Twelve Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyers will remain in the fleet past their initial service lives, the Navy announced on Thursday. The life extensions for the Flight I destroyers range ...

Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyers have very few things to fear in this world. First commissioned in the early 1990s, the fleet of such ships (which presently comprises over 70 of them, ...

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. Navy ...

Huntington Ingalls Industries Inc. HI recently clinched a contract to provide follow-yard support for Arleigh Burke class (DDG 51) guided missile destroyer program. The award has been offered by the ...

The new destroyer is named for longtime Alaska senator Ted Stevens, a strong supporter of the US Navy and Marine Corps and an ...

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. Moscow and Washington are embroiled in a fresh ...

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