The destroyer has a platform for rearming and refuelling a LAMPS III SH-60B/F helicopter with ASW capabilities, but the ship cannot accommodate a helicopter of its own without hangars. This is the first US Navy class to be fitted out with anti-NBC warfare protection. Details of Arleigh Bur...
The assault apparently targeted the USS Carney, an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer that has been involved in the American campaign against the rebels.
Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer Frank E. Petersen Jr. (DDG 121) departed HII's Ingalls Shipbuilding division on Friday, April 8, 2022. (Photo: HII)U.S. Navy Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer Frank E. Petersen Jr. (DDG 121) departed from HII’s Ingalls Shipbuilding ...
Pictured is the US Navy’s future Arleigh Burke-class destroyer USS Lenah Sutcliffe Higbee (DDG 123). Credit: Huntington Ingalls Industries, Inc. Huntington Ingalls Industries’ (HII)Ingalls Shipbuilding divisionhas officially delivered the US Navy’s future Arleigh Burke-classguided-missile destroyer ...
On 16th June, Yemen’s Houthis claimed responsibility for attacking two civilian vessels and an American destroyer in the Red Sea.
The USS Arleigh Burke (DDG-51) Destroyer entered service in 1991. Since then, over 50 ships of this class have been constructed. The production of these ships is slated to end in a few years with DDG-112, however these vessels will be serving in the US fleet for many years to come...
“The start of fabrication on a new destroyer is always exciting,” said Ingalls’ DDG 51 program manager George Nungesser. “DDG 125 is no exception. Our shipbuilders have delivered 30 of these ships to the U.S. Navy and back-to-back building has allowed them to gain experience and tale...
The U.S. shot down 10 bomb-carrying Houthi drones, as well as a cruise missile heading toward the Arleigh Burke-class destroyer USS Laboon over the last day, Central Command said Tuesday. The U.S. military also conducted strikes targeting a Houthi surface-to-air missile launcher and a dron...
In May, the U.S. Navy’s USS Lake Champlain collided with a South Korean fishing vessel but both ships were able to operate under their own power. UPDATE – Navy Captain Injured The U.S. Navy said the commander of a destroyer that collided with a Philippine merchant vessel early on Satu...
In October 2008, Raytheon was contracted to supply a version of the dual-band radar (DBR) developed for the Zumwalt-class destroyer, for installation on the Gerald R. Ford. DBR combines X-band and S-band phased arrays. Propulsion Northrop Grumman developed an advanced nuclear propulsion system...