Boatswain's Mate 2nd Class Mark Bramlett, from Lafayette, Louisiana, serves aboard the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile ...
As the U.S. Navy waits for more of its Flight III Arleigh Burke class destroyers to join the fleet, existing Flight IIA DDGs ...
The Gatling Gun-style weapon, which is based on the 20mm M61 Vulcan autocannon, can fire 20mm x 102mm rounds at an extremely high rate. It has a dual fire rate of either 3,000 or 4,500 rounds per ...
For much of modern naval history, the role of a destroyer has been to protect larger warships from attack by enemy submarines ...
While the United States isn't specifically required to help North Korea, an important part of the U.S. Navy's ongoing mission ...
As the U.S. Navy proceeds with modernizing its Flight IIA Arleigh Burke class destroyers with advanced electronic warfare, radar and combat systems upgrades, the head of the so-called DDG ...
The Navy wants to buy its first next-generation guided missile destroyer by 2032, but first there are there are some details ...
General Dynamics Mission Systems (GDMS) recently announced that it was awarded a fixed-price-incentive, firm-fixed-price, cost-plus-fixed-fee, and cost-only contract from the U.S. Navy in Decembe ...
However, these advancements come with a significant price tag: the DDG (X) is estimated to cost US$4.4 billion per ship, far ...
The Navy is already analyzing and training to prevent a repeat of a December friendly fire incident that saw USS Gettysburg ...
Japan's concerns over a potential U.S. retreat from the region have grown amid China's increasingly assertive military posture.