For much of modern naval history, the role of a destroyer has been to protect larger warships from attack by enemy submarines ...

However, these advancements come with a significant price tag: the DDG (X) is estimated to cost US$4.4 billion per ship, far ...

What You Need to Know: The U.S. Navy’s Zumwalt-class destroyer program ... The Zumwalt was supposed to be central to future ...

As the U.S. Navy’s next-generation destroyer, currently dubbed the DDG(X), continues through concept design stages, the ...

Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro last week announced the names of two new Arleigh Burke-class Guided Missile Destroyers, the future USS ... Del Toro and the United States Navy that gave ...

Doing so will give us many times more bang for the buck than we have been getting with ships like the Navy’s LCSs and the futuristic Zumwalt-class destroyers. Most important, it will help ...

The Arleigh Burke (DDG-51) class destroyer ... 51 design, incorporates a new and more capable radar called the SPY-6 radar. DDG-51s currently cost about $2.5 billion each to procure. The Navy ...

USS Sterett (DDG-104) will be the first destroyer to receive all electronic warfare, radar and combat system upgrades under ...

The U.S. Navy’s Flight III Arleigh Burke (DDG-51) class destroyers are facing cost increases and delays, jumping from an average of $2.1 billion per ship to $2.5 billion per hull, with even steeper ...

The US Navy is replacing touch screen controls on destroyers, after the displays ... who oversees US Navy ship design, said the control systems were "overly complex" because shipbuilders had ...

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.