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With the cancellation of the CG(X) in 2010, the U.S. Navy embarked on new studies and programs for the future of the air defense role fulfilled by the Ticonderoga-class cruisers. Because the cruisers were built on the Spruance-class destroyer hulls, they had limited upgrade potential due to space, weight, and power margins. [6] [7]
In April 2014, the U.S. Navy began the development of a new destroyer to replace the Arleigh Burke class called the "Future Surface Combatant". The new class is expected to enter service in the 2030s and initially serve alongside the Flight III Arleigh Burkes. The destroyer class will incorporate emerging technologies like lasers, onboard power ...
The Zumwalt-class destroyer is a class of three United States Navy guided-missile destroyers designed as multi-mission stealth ships with a focus on land attack. The class was designed with a primary role of naval gunfire support and secondary roles of surface warfare and anti-aircraft warfare .
An artist rendering of the Zumwalt-class destroyer DDG 1000, a new class of multi-mission U.S. Navy surface combatant ship designed to operate as part of a joint maritime fleet, assisting Marine ...
USS Arleigh Burke (DDG-51) This is a list of destroyers of the United States Navy, sorted by hull number.It includes all of the series DD, DL, DDG, DLG, and DLGN. CG-47 Ticonderoga and CG-48 Yorktown were approved as destroyers (DDG-47 and DDG-48) and redesignated cruisers before being laid down; it is uncertain whether CG-49 Vincennes and CG-50 Valley Forge were ever authorized as destroyers ...
In June 2022 Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro announced that DDG-138, an Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer, would be named the USS J. William Middendorf.
This envisaged a destroyer called DD-21 and a planned cruiser called CG-21. Budget cuts in November 2001 meant that SC-21 became the less ambitious Future Surface Combatant program. The DD-21 was renamed DD(X), which was later named the Zumwalt-class destroyer. By April 2002, DD(X) was to be the "foundation" for a family of surface combatants ...
Name Hull no. Flight Builder Laid down Launched Commissioned Home port Status Arleigh Burke DDG 51 I Bath Iron Works: 6 December 1988 16 September 1989