Service: USN Armament: Standard Missile (SM-2MR); Vertical Launch ASROC missiles ... of modern destroyers culminating in the Arleigh Burke (DDG 51) class replacing the older Charles F.

According to the U.S. Navy, each Arleigh Burke-class destroyer has been “built around the Aegis Combat System,” and the vessels continue to be “the backbone of the U.S. Navy’s surface ...

American missiles were used to engage most of the enemy targets, but the destroyer was forced to employ the five-inch gun against one of the drones.