For much of modern naval history, the role of a destroyer has been to protect larger warships from attack by enemy submarines ...

The latest renderings depicting the U.S. Navy’s next-generation destroyer are missing some weapon systems initially ...

The following is the Dec. 16, 2024, Congressional Research Service report, Navy DDG-51 and DDG-1000 Destroyer Programs: ...

The Navy spent $8 billion per unit on the Zumwalt-class destroyer (which has been billed as the world’s largest destroyer), equaling about $24 billion in all. This new destroyer was to be ...

To cope with the loss of new destroyers the navy resumed building older DDG-51 Arleigh Burke class destroyers. It was a matter of cost. The new Zumwalt destroyers and slightly larger versions ...

The report says the U.S. Navy has 8,400 VLS cells distributed across 85 surface ships, including its 74 Arleigh-Burke-class destroyers, two of its three Zumwalt ... VLS cells, a new report says.

The Navy will name two future Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carriers for former presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush.

The most expensive destroyer ever built for the United States Navy has suffered an engineering ... The US$4.4 billion Zumwalt is the first in a new line of revolutionary guided missile destroyers.

It said in a new report that "the Navy wasted $1.84 billion ... of future destroyers. New destroyers are still being developed after the failure of the Zumwalt program and delays with the DDG ...

The Navy spent $745.05 million to upgrade the ship, but after the cruiser spent four years in the shipyard, the Navy found ...

the US Navy is readying to release the Conventional Prompt Strike system, intended to be deployed from submarines and naval vessels, including the Zumwalt-class destroyers by 2025 and Virginia ...