The U.S. Navy’s Flight III Arleigh Burke (DDG-51) class destroyers are facing cost increases and delays, jumping from an ...

The first Flight IIA, USS Oscar Austin, was commissioned in August 2000. A DDG modernization program is underway to provide a comprehensive mid-life upgrade that will ensure the DDG 51 class will ...

The US Navy has announced the names of its planned Flight III Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyers, the future USS ...

The next two United States Navy Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyers – both of the Flight III – have officially been ...

The first ship to undergo this refurb is the Arleigh Burke (DDG-51), which entered service in 1991 and was scheduled to retire in 2026. The refurb will extend that to 2031 or 2036. Burkes were built ...

Its Bath Iron Works business unit builds the DDG-51 Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile ... Its freedom-variant LCS, USS Nantucket (LCS 27), is a resilient, flexible warship designed to serve ...

USS Intrepid (DDG-145 ... (AAW), Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW), and Anti-Surface Warfare (ASuW). The DDG 51 Flight III upgrade was designed to be centered on the AN/SPY-6(V)1 Air and Missile ...

The Department’s decision to truncate the DDG 1000 program and continue building DDG 51 class ships triggered a Nunn McCurdy critical cost breach due primarily to a reduction in total ...