In the most recent incident in the Red Sea, the Yemeni Houthis fired a close-range ballistic missile from the Houthi Controlled region towards the US Navy’s Arleigh Burke-class destroyer, USS Laboon, on March 12 2024. The missile has not affected the destroyer, nor have any casualties ...
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“You have built the finest destroyer in the world,” Gilday said. Jack H. Lucas is co-sponsored by Ruby Lucas, widow of the ship’s namesake, and Catherine B. Reynolds, chairman and CEO of the Catherine B. Reynolds Foundation. Together, the two sponsors officially christened the ship an...
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. ...
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 ...
TOKYO — Japan's coast guard is investigating why it took nearly an hour for a deadly collision between a U.S. Navy destroyer and a container ship to be reported. A coast guard official said Monday they are trying to find out what the crew of the Philippine-flagged ACX Crystal wa...
The US Navy has awarded contracts, totalling $202m, to BAE Systems to undertake modernisation and maintenance services on two naval ships to enhance their operational capabilities. The contracts will support theArleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer USSLaboon(DDG 58) and theWasp-class multi-...
In the second major provocation byChina'smilitary in the span of a week, a Chinese warship carried out what the U.S. military called "an unsafe maritime interaction" when it crossed an American warship's bow at a distance of 150 yards forcing the U.S. Navy destroyer to take evasive man...
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Navy took delivery of itsfirst stealth destroyerand a newFlight IIAArleigh Burke-class destroyer last week. DDG-1000, the Zumwalt, is the first of a three-ship class of stealth destroyers delivered to the Navy nearly four years after it was commissione...
Seoul, South KoreaCNN— Chinaaccused the United States military of “abusing international law” and continuing a pattern of “dangerous provocations” in East Asia Thursday, after a US Navy destroyer made the service’s first transit of the Taiwan Strait of 2024. The movement ...