The U.S. Navy says upgrading the Arleigh Burke-class destroyers may not be worth the money, but the move has support in Congress. ... Later models — Flight IIA — have 40-year hull lives, ...

General Dynamics christened the US Navy’s new guided missile destroyer, the DDG 127, on July 27, 2024 at Bath Iron Works, Maine. The ship, which will become the USS Patrick Gallagher on entering ...

A Burke-class destroyer is around 500 feet long and displaces around 9,000 tons of water. Armament includes nearly 100 missile cells plus guns. The Navy through 2025 is building 13 Flight III ...

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 ...

The Arleigh Burke-class destroyer Donald Cook sails alongside Georgian Coast Guard ships in the Black Sea. Cook is one of the early Flight I DDGs that will leave service in the early 2030s under a ...

In December, Capt. Casey Moton, program manager for the Arleigh Burke-class destroyer program, told USNI news the Flight III upgrade affected about 45 percent of the ship’s drawings zones.

Similar to Arleigh Burke-class destroyers, the DDG 1000 is designed for a range of missions, but it has a number of key new features that set it apart. For example, this destroyer is designed to ...

Bath Iron Works now has 12 Arleigh Burke-class destroyers in the works as the U.S. seeks to build up its Navy to counter China's expanding fleet.