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The Navy's Next-Gen Destroyer Is Missing Something Important: A Gun
F or much of modern naval history, the role of a destroyer has been to protect larger warships from attack by enemy submarines, surface combatants, and aircraft. This objective was accomplished ...
The United States Navy Is Fielding Dozens of These Destroyers
The United States Navy maintains an edge when it comes to sheer numerical superiority over most nations. When you have ...
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 ...
Commander describes the moment a US Navy destroyer blasted an enemy drone out of the sky with a 5-inch deck gun
USS Stockdale destroyed the Houthi drone during a complex attack on American forces in November.
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Everything Wrong With The Navy's Cruiser Modernization Program
The program has been incredibly wasteful and poorly run, creating numerous learned for the Navy's destroyer modernization program. Cruisers, one of seven types of modern warships, are used for a ...
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The Navy’s Next-Gen Destroyer Is Missing Something Important: A Gun
The U.S. Navy’s newest Arleigh Burke class of guided-missile destroyers are armed with the Mk 45 five-inch 54/62 caliber guns, which can fire 16 to 20 rounds per minute to a range of 13 nautical ...