As tensions with China escalate, the U.S. Navy’s DDG(X) destroyer program aims to modernize its fleet with enhanced firepower ...

(Janes/Michael Fabey) The US Navy (USN) intends to operate 12 Arleigh Burke-class (DDG 51) Flight I destroyers beyond their 35-year expected service lives, the USN confirmed on 31 October.

Extending the lives of the warships may indicate the Navy’s struggle to keep its fleet count at a credible level as Chinese ...

Additionally, the U.S. had been prioritizing the “Next Generation Air Dominance” program, also known as NGAD, sidelining the DDG(X) program: the class of destroyers that would replace the Arleigh ...

WASHINGTON – Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro announced Oct. 31 that the Department of the Navy plans to operate 12 Arleigh Burke class (DDG 51) Flight I Destroyers beyond their 35-year expected ...

like the Flight III DDG-51 design, is to include ninety-six standard Vertical Launch System (VLS) cells, with an ability to incorporate twelve large missile launch cells in place of thirty-two of ...

The decision is intended to squeeze the Navy’s prize assets in a fiscally challenging economy. US secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro has announced plans to operate 12 of its Arleigh Burke-class ...

This includes 21 Flight I ships, as well as a mixture of Flight II, IIA, and III types with successive ... the Navy conducted a thorough evaluation of each DDG-51 Flight I ship (DDG 51-71) over ...

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With estimates reaching $3.5 billion per DDG(X) destroyer ... this idea was nixed and the Navy instead developed the Flight III Arleigh Burke-class destroyers to fulfill this role.

31 that it plans to operate 12 Arleigh Burke class (DDG 51) Flight I destroyers beyond their 35-year expected service life. Then, today, Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro announced that, ...