How much does it pay to interpose a fleet of warships between a nation and a salvo of ballistic missiles? The United States ...

The Mk45 is the gun installed on the Navy’s Arleigh Burke guided-missile destroyers (DDGs) and Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruisers, as well as on some warships of 11 other navies.

USS Gravely, an Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer, departed Naval Weapons Station Yorktown in Virginia for a scheduled deployment to the U.S.-Mexico border to carry out President Donald ...

Ingalls is one of two yards that are building the Arleigh Burke (DDG 51) class of AEGIS guided missile destroyers (DDGs) (along with General Dynamics Bath Iron Works (BIW) in Maine), and is the ...

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 ...

The US Navy’s newest Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer, DDG 122, has been commissioned as the USS John Basilone. Basilone was the only enlisted Marine in World War II to earn both the Medal ...

Each U.S. Navy Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer typically carries 600 rounds for the Mark 45 gun mount. BAE Systems Hypervelocity Projectile (HVP) in flight. Credit: BAE Systems Press ...

The Arleigh A. Burke Chair in Strategy was established and endowed in honor of CSIS’s first director and cofounder, Admiral Arleigh A. Burke. The Chair honors one of the United States’ foremost naval ...

Japan is studying a new class of air defense destroyer that is equipped with a railgun, new surface-to-air missiles and directed energy weapons to better counter large-scale missile strikes and ...

While not as powerful as an aircraft carrier, America’s Arleigh Burke–class guided-missile destroyers pack a punch. These ships are 505 feet long and about 59 feet wide, displacing between ...

That changed recently, after one of the many Arleigh Burke destroyers, the USS Carl M Levin (DDG 120) was deployed at the Pacific Missile Test Range Facility in Kauai, Hawaii for exactly this purpose.

Notably, the bridge, which typically requires a crew of about five to 10 sailors on the Arleigh Burke-class, can be effectively managed by a single sailor if necessary on the Zumwalt.