The USS Spruance (DDG 111), a US Navy Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer, is operating at the center of ongoing naval operations in the Gulf of Oman and the broader Middle East region amid heightened tensions with Iran.

Zero vessels have broken through the U.S. Navy blockade of the Strait of Hormuz since it began Monday, U.S. Central Command stated.

During the span of a decade from the early 70s to the early 80s, the US Navy built as many as 31 Spruance-class destroyers, a group of warships which served as the primary destroyer for the service in the 1970s and 1980. The ships were named after famous ...

Summary and Key Points: Introduced in the 1970s, the Spruance-class destroyers were designed primarily for anti-submarine warfare and named after WWII Navy Admiral Raymond Spruance. Some experts consider them among the...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The US military is sending another warship to guard the southern border with Mexico. The destroyer USS Spruance, which fought the Houthis in the Red Sea, is set to operate off the West Coast