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The Arleigh Burke Destroyer’s Mk 45 Cannon Has a New Role: Drone Defense
American missiles were used to engage most of the enemy targets, but the destroyer was forced to employ the five-inch gun against one of the drones.
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An Arleigh-Burke Destroyer Shot Down Houthi Drones Using a 5-inch Gun
There’s a lot of high-fives when you shoot something down with a gun, kind of World War II-style.” Since Hamas waged its October 7, 2023, massacre against Israel, Iran’s regional proxy groups have ...
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Special Report: US Navy DDG upgrades continue despite budget and testing concerns
As the US Navy (USN) moves to modernise and augment its guided-missile destroyer (DDG) fleet, the service is dealing with ...
NextBigFuture4d
US Navy Lasers
In 2014, the US Navy installed its first prototype SSL (solid state laser) capable of countering surface craft and unmanned ...
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Navy Identifies First Destroyer to Receive Full Set of DDG MOD 2.0 Upgrades
Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Sterett (DDG-104) prepares to pull out of port at Naval Weapons Station Seal Beach, Calif., on Nov. 21, 2024. US Navy Photo On top of the ...
Defense One26d
Navy looking for solutions to power, outfit new destroyer
The Navy wants to buy its first next-generation guided missile destroyer by 2032, but first there are there are some details that need to be hammered out for replacing the trusty Arleigh Burke ...
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HII’s Ingalls Shipbuilding opens virtual reality welding lab
HII’s Ingalls Shipbuilding division, along with representatives from the U.S. Navy, Accelerate Mississippi, and Mississippi ...
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Arleigh Burke-class destroyer could get more firepower with AGM-179 JAGM
DDG-88 scale model with ... multirole AGM-179 JAGM missiles to an Arleigh Burke-class model, replacing its RGM-84 Harpoon launchers. Share Lockheed Martin displayed a new Arleigh Burke-class guided ...