DDG-51 Flight III program is on track, but transitioning from the earlier Arleigh Burkes has required a significant number of design changes and challenges.

Essentially, Flight III DDGs would have an entirely new combat system, built around AMDR and allowing each platform to perform simultaneous self-defense and theater ballistic-missile missions ...

The USN’s first Flight III Arleigh Burke -class destroyer, the future USS Jack H. Lucas (DDG 125), completed builder’s trials on 15 December. The trials included a series of in-port and at-sea ...

A keel-laying ceremony was held in Mississippi for the USS Jack H. Lucas, the first of the Navy's Arleigh Burke-class destroyers in the Flight III configuration, which includes the new SPY-6 radar ...

The Flight III is slightly bigger than earlier Burke s are and features a new radar and more power generation. A Burke -class destroyer is around 500 feet long and displaces around 9,000 tons of ...

The Flight III Arleigh Burke-class destroyers, the latest iteration of the Arleigh Burke series that first entered service in 1991, feature air and ballistic missile defence capabilities with the ...

The Flight III, the current version of the Burke, itself is a gap-filler. The Navy commissioned the Flight III design in the mid-2000s after repeated failures to develop a brand-new class of ...

HII division Ingalls Shipbuilding has launched the US Navy’s third Flight III Arleigh Burke -class (DDG 51) guided missile destroyer, the future USS Jeremiah Denton (DDG 129).

The Flight III upgrade to the Arleigh Burke class of guided missile destroyers provides enhanced warfighting capability to the fleet, including the AN/SPY-6 (V)1 Air radar array to improve ...

U.S. Navy’s time-honored traditions, the christening of the USS Jeremiah Denton (DDG 129) at Huntington Ingalls Industries’ (HII) Ingalls Shipbuilding yard on June 28, 2025, marked a significant ...

The U.S. Navy says upgrading the Arleigh Burke-class destroyers may not be worth the money, but the move has support in Congress.

The next steps of the acquisition of Arleigh Burke (Flight III - DDG 51) destroyers remain unclear as the US Navy (USN) is currently evaluating its in-service fleet and defining what capabilities it ...