The first Flight IIA, USS Oscar Austin, was commissioned in August 2000. A DDG modernization program is underway to provide a comprehensive mid-life upgrade that will ensure the DDG 51 class will ...

General Dynamics Corp.’s GD business unit, Bath Iron Works, recently clinched a modification contract that enables the ...

USS Laboon, pictured here operating earlier in ... (Janes/Michael Fabey) The US Navy (USN) intends to operate 12 Arleigh Burke-class (DDG 51) Flight I destroyers beyond their 35-year expected ...

like the Flight III DDG-51 design, is to include ninety-six standard Vertical Launch System (VLS) cells, with an ability to incorporate twelve large missile launch cells in place of thirty-two of ...

HII has laid the keel for the future USS Sam Nunn, an Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer, during a ceremony on ...

DDG 63, USS Stethem — the sixth DDG 51 class Aegis guided missile destroyer built for the U.S. Navy by Ingalls Shipbuilding Division of Litton Industries — was commissioned and reported for ...

The keel for the future USS Sam Nunn (DDG 133), an Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer, was laid during a ceremony ...

The CBO and Navy estimates are about forty-five percent to fifty-nine percent, and nine percent to fourteen percent, respectively, more than the DDG-51’s procurement cost of about $2.2 billion.” ...