The Navy’s DDG(X) program envisages procuring a class of next-generation guided-missile destroyers (DDGs) to replace the Navy’s Ticonderoga (CG-47) class Aegis cruisers and older Arleigh Burke (DDG-51 ...
Summary and Key Points: The U.S. Navy’s ambitious DDG(X) program aims to replace aging Ticonderoga-class Aegis destroyers with next-generation guided-missile destroyers by Fiscal Year 2032. -While the ...
General Dynamics Corp.’s GD business unit, Bath Iron Works, recently clinched a contract to provide planning yard services for its DDG 51 guided-missile destroyer ships. The award has been offered by ...
Photo courtesy Edward Lundquist HII’s Ingalls Shipbuilding division successfully undocked USS Zumwalt (DDG 1000), the lead ship of the U.S. Navy’s Zumwalt-class of guided missile destroyers on Friday, ...
USS Pinckney , shown here, is the first destroyer to get the full SEWIP Block 3 installation. (Richard Scott/Navypix) Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Pinckney (DDG 91) in March became ...
The U.S. Navy added a new guided-missile destroyer to its fleet when the USS Harvey C. Barnum Jr. (DDG 124) reached its commissioning milestone, giving the service another Aegis-equipped warship ...