Since the launch of USS Bainbridge in 1902, the U.S. Navy has produced 35 destroyer classes, not including numerous subclasses, evolving from small torpedo boat hunters into multi-mission warships ...
During the span of a decade from the early 70s to the early 80s, the US Navy built as many as 31 Spruance-class destroyers, a group of warships which served as the primary destroyer for the service in ...
The Arleigh Burke was never meant to dominate the fleet. It was smaller than cruisers, stripped of key systems, and designed ...
Chronic delays and labor overruns for Navy destroyers are a persistent trend that hurts fleet readiness, a Congressional ...
All in all, the expansion of USV use is a promising experiment that could ameliorate the US Navy’s force-structure woes—while amplifying US fleets’ combat power in a hurry. Over at Defense One last ...
The destroyer fighting ship (not to be confused with the cruiser) is the workhorse of the modern U.S. Navy. The 75 destroyers in active service — which are mostly Arleigh Burke-class ships — are able ...
The U.S. Navy reached a major milestone in an effort to modernize its Arleigh Burke class of guided-missile destroyers when the USS Ted Stevens (DDG-128) completed builder's sea trials in late ...