The design, construction and operations of the United States Navy Spruance class destroyers. America's Submarine Hunters.

The Ticonderogas were initially scheduled to be destroyers and were designed around the Spruance-class destroyer hull. The cancellation of the strike cruiser project and the scaling back of the ...

The Navy built the first Aegis cruisers using the hull and machinery designs of Spruance class destroyers. The commissioning of USS Bunker Hill (CG 52) opened a new era in surface warfare as the ...