Today's high-end Arleigh Burkes started out as mid-tier combatants. AFP via Getty Images. It has been almost thirty years since the USS Arleigh Burke (DDG 51) entered U.S. Navy service. Back then ...

The Arleigh Burke class employs all-steel construction and is comprised of three separate variants or “Flights”: DDG 51-71 represent the original design and are designated Flight I ships; DDG ...

Each Arleigh Burke ship is equipped with four General Electric LM 2500 gas turbines to produce 100,000 total shaft horsepower by a dual shaft design. This enables the class of destroyers to sail ...

Following a 2009 study that pitted the Flight III model with installing the AMDR on next-generation Zumwalt-class DDG-1000, the Arleigh Burke was selected as the lowest cost option for a BMD ...

The Arleigh Burke-class opted for an all-steel hull and superstructure. It was also one of the first ship designs in the Navy to incorporate some degree of stealth into its design.

The journey from conception to commissioning of a U.S. naval ship is a long process with multiple milestones. It starts with a design phase, ... Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer ...

AM speeds readiness for USS Arleigh Burke. FDRMC Rota and Spanish partners fast-track critical repairs for the US Navy’s Sixth Fleet.

The US Navy’s newest Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer, USS John Basilone, has been commissioned.DDG 122 became the 74th ship of her class and the second ship to bear the namesake of ...

The 3-D printing process reduced the manufacturing time of one part, which traditionally takes nearly a year to produce, by ...

The first ship of any new class is named for both the ship and the its classification. The first Nimitz class carrier was named the USS Nimitz and the first Arleigh Burke-class destroyer was named ...

Huntington Ingalls Inc., Pascagoula, Mississippi, is awarded a $936,032,309 fixed-price-incentive-firm-target modification to previously awarded contract N00024-18-C-2307 to exercise the fiscal 2020 ...