The Arleigh Burke class employs all-steel construction and is comprised of three separate variants or “Flights”: DDG 51-71 represent the original design and are designated Flight I ships; DDG ...

Code-named DDG 51, they were here to replace the Charles F. Adams class (DDG 2) vessels, and since then they have become some of the most successful floating war machines ever made.

That was not the case when I was a young officer serving on a DDG-2 Adams-class destroyer. … The opportunity is there, and I think we’re going to work on that.” ...