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 ...

The United States has been attempting to develop a next-generation guided missile destroyer for over 30 years. Despite the ...

American missiles were used to engage most of the enemy targets, but the destroyer was forced to employ the five-inch gun ...

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 Navy wants to buy its first next-generation guided missile destroyer by 2032 ... to be hammered out for replacing the trusty Arleigh Burke-class ships the service has fielded since the ...

Del Toro named the newest Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer the future Intrepid on Friday while aboard the former carrier Intrepid, now part of its namesake museum in New York City.

The USS Robert Kerrey will be an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer, built around the Aegis radar system designed to defend Navy battle groups from air attack. The Kerrey will be the third Arleigh ...

It's no wonder that the Navy's newest Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer was named the USS Robert Kerrey in his honor, as Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro announced on Jan. 4, 2025.

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 ...

Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro named the sea service’s newest Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Intrepid (DDG-145), the latest to carry that name in the fleet, according to ...

The U.S. Navy Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer, operating in the Red Sea, engaged a drone swarm launched from parts of Yemen controlled by Houthi rebels, according to U.S. Central Command.