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The Arleigh Burke Destroyer’s Mk 45 Cannon Has a New Role: Drone Defense
American missiles were used to engage most of the enemy targets, but the destroyer was forced to employ the five-inch gun ...
Arleigh Burke Destroyers Taking On Navy Air Defense Commander Role As Cruisers Disappear From Fleet
As the U.S. Navy waits for more of its Flight III Arleigh Burke class destroyers to join the fleet, existing Flight IIA DDGs ...
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U.S. Approves Standard Missile-6 Sale for Japan’s Aegis Destroyers
While Japan is in the process of massively up-gunning itself with other U.S. weapons, the SM-6 represents a specific ...
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Crew of USS Stockdale Shot Down Houthi Drones with 5-Inch Gun, Says Admiral
Sailors with USS Stockdale (DDG-106) used the destroyer’s five-inch gun to shoot down a Houthi uncrewed aerial vehicle, the ...
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US Navy names DDG 146 Arleigh Burke destroyer after former US Senator
The US Navy (USN) has named its latest Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer, the DDG 146. It will be known as the USS Robert Kerrey. The vessel was named after former US Senator and naval ...
Destroyer Has Become First U.S. Navy Ship To Deploy Artificial Intelligence System
The Navy destroyer USS Fitzgerald (DDG-62) became the first warship to deploy with a program-of-record artificial ...
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Lafayette native serves aboard the USS Preble
Boatswain's Mate 2nd Class Mark Bramlett, from Lafayette, Louisiana, serves aboard the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile ...
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Northwest Ohio Native Monitors Radar Aboard Destroyer
U.S. Navy sailors serve and protect from around the globe, and every sailor got their start somewhere. Chief Operations ...
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U.S. Participates in South China Sea Maritime Exercise
It is no secret that today's focus of the U.S. Navy is preparing for the possibility of conflict in the Pacific by 2027, and ...