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Dual Band radar still had problems prior to USS Ford's first deployment.
Zumwalt Class

USS Gerald R. Ford Was Still Struggling With Its Dual Band Radar Prior To Deployment

By Geoff Ziezulewicz

Posted on Feb 5, 2025

HELIOS laser fired from the USS Preble.
Arleigh Burke Class

Navy HELIOS Laser Aboard USS Preble Zaps Drone In Latest Test

By Geoff Ziezulewicz, Tyler Rogoway

Posted on Feb 4, 2025

200702-N-SB299-1015 SAN DIEGO (July 2, 2020) The guided-missile destroyer USS Fitzgerald (DDG 62) arrives at its homeport of Naval Base San Diego following more than two years of restoration and modernization at Huntington Ingalls Industries - Ingalls Shipbuilding Division's Pascagoula, Mississippi shipyard. The ship was damaged during a 2017 collision that claimed the lives of seven Sailors. While in San Diego, the crew will complete extensive training and certifications through Basic, Advanced, and Integrated phases of training. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Alex Millar/Released)
Arleigh Burke Class

Destroyer Has Become First U.S. Navy Ship To Deploy Artificial Intelligence System

By Geoff Ziezulewicz

Posted on Jan 29, 2025

DDG missile firing. (U.S. Navy)
Arleigh Burke Class

What Red Sea Battles Have Taught The Navy About A Future China Fight

By Geoff Ziezulewicz

Posted on Jan 28, 2025

The Navy destroyer USS Pinckney.
Arleigh Burke Class

Navy Says It Won’t Repeat Cruiser Upgrade Blunder With Destroyer Modernization 2.0 Effort

By Geoff Ziezulewicz

Posted on Jan 21, 2025

USS Michael Murphy
Arleigh Burke Class

Arleigh Burke Destroyers Taking On Navy Air Defense Commander Role As Cruisers Disappear From Fleet

By Geoff Ziezulewicz

Updated on Jan 20, 2025

PACIFIC OCEAN (Jan. 23, 2024) The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Spruance (DDG 111) fires an SM-2 missile during a live-fire exercise. Spruance, assigned to the Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group, is currently underway in the U.S. 3rd Fleet area of operations conducting advanced tactical training that increases warfighting capability and tactical proficiency across all domains. (U.S. Navy photo by Ensign John Rosenberg)
Arleigh Burke Class

Navy Warships Have To Leave Red Sea Fight For Weeks To Reload Their Missiles

By Geoff Ziezulewicz

Updated on Jan 17, 2025

Newly released pictures offer the first real look at the four new large launch tubes for firing Intermediate-Range Conventional Prompt Strike (IRCPS) hypersonic missiles now installed on the U.S. Navy's stealth destroyer USS Zumwalt.
Zumwalt Class

First Look At Stealth Destroyer’s Hypersonic Missile Launchers

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Jan 16, 2025

A conceptual design of the U.S. Navy's future DDG(X) warship.
Arleigh Burke Class

DDG(X) Next-Generation Destroyer’s Capabilities And Costs Are Solidifying

By Geoff Ziezulewicz

Posted on Jan 15, 2025

How many weapons US Navy ships launched in the Red Sea.
Arleigh Burke Class

Navy Just Revealed Tally Of Surface-To-Air Missiles Fired In Ongoing Red Sea Fight

By Geoff Ziezulewicz

Updated on Jan 14, 2025

USS Jack H. Lucas
Arleigh Burke Class

Cost Of Navy’s Newest Arleigh Burke Destroyers Is Ballooning

By Geoff Ziezulewicz

Posted on Jan 8, 2025

231014-N-GF955-1031 EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN SEA (Oct. 14, 2023) Sailors assigned to the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Carney (DDG 64), man their watch stations in the combat information center (CIC) during a general quarters drill, October 14, 2023. Carney is currently a part of the Gerald R. Ford Carrier Strike Group. The strike group is on a scheduled deployment conducting routine operations in the U.S. Naval Forces Europe area of operations, employed by the U.S. Sixth Fleet to defend U.S., allied, and partner interests. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Aaron Lau)
Arleigh Burke Class

Red Sea Attacks Are Testing Combat Information Centers Aboard U.S. Navy Warships Like Never Before

By Geoff Ziezulewicz

Posted on Jan 6, 2025

The New Year's deck log poem is a longstanding Navy tradition.
Destroyers

How Sailor Poets Take Over U.S. Navy Deck Logs On New Year’s Day

By Geoff Ziezulewicz

Posted on Dec 31, 2024

North Korea's new warship with VLS and phased array radar.
Destroyers

North Korea’s New Warship Appears To Be Designed For Vertical Launch System, Phased Array Radar

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Dec 30, 2024

PLA Navy is expanding its reach warns the DoD.
Destroyers

Pentagon Warns Of China’s Increasing Capacity To Project Naval Power Far From Home

By Geoff Ziezulewicz

Posted on Dec 19, 2024

GAO says the cruiser modernization effort was terribly ran and brought with issues.
Arleigh Burke Class

Navy’s Cruiser Modernization A Lesson In How Not To Run Such A Program: GAO Report

By Geoff Ziezulewicz

Updated on Dec 17, 2024

HMAS Brisbane fires a Tomahawk Weapon System off of the cost of San Diego, United States of America.
Destroyers

Australian Navy Fires Tomahawk Cruise Missile For The First Time

By Geoff Ziezulewicz

Posted on Dec 9, 2024

The USS Zumwalt's hypersonic missile launchers are now installed.
Zumwalt Class

USS Zumwalt Returns To The Water With A Hypersonic Missile Launcher Upgrade

By Geoff Ziezulewicz

Posted on Dec 6, 2024

5 inch Mark 45 deck gun firing.
Arleigh Burke Class

USS Carney’s Red Sea Operations Highlight 5-inch Deck Gun’s Anti-Air Capability

By Geoff Ziezulewicz

Posted on Dec 6, 2024

The Republic of Korea Navy (ROKN) recently commissioned the first of its new KDX-III Batch 2 destroyers, also known as the Sejong Daewang class. Among the many advanced features incorporated in these warships, especially striking is the latest version of the Korean Vertical Launch System — KVLS-II — which is initially planned to hold surface-to-air missiles, but which could well also add land attack cruise missiles, and ballistic missiles.
Destroyers

South Korea’s New Destroyer Is Designed To Fire Ballistic Missiles

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Dec 3, 2024

Full Retirement Of Ticonderoga Cruisers On Hold, Trio To Remain In Service Into 2029
Arleigh Burke Class

Full Retirement Of Ticonderoga Cruisers On Hold, Trio To Remain In Service Into 2029

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Nov 5, 2024

The U.S. Navy plans to keep all 12 of its Flight I Arleigh Burke class destroyers in service beyond their originally 35-year expected service life.
Arleigh Burke Class

Oldest Arleigh Burke Destroyers Get Reprieve, Service Extended Into 2030s

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Oct 31, 2024

The U.S. Navy said it successfully intercepted several Iranian missiles headed to Israel.
Arleigh Burke Class

U.S. Navy Destroyers “Successfully Engaged” Iranian Ballistic Missiles On Their Way To Israel

By Howard Altman

Posted on Oct 2, 2024

In a cloud of smoke the Russian destroyer Admiral Levchenko leaves Portsmouth for operation FRUKUS.
Udaloy Class

Russian Destroyer Fired Warning Shots At Norwegian Fishing Boat: Report

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Sep 24, 2024

The Arleigh Burke class destroyer USS Fitzgerald it participating in the biennial RIMPAC exercise with a new addition to its arsenal, stealthy Naval Strike Missiles.
Arleigh Burke Class

Navy Destroyer Modified With Naval Strike Missiles Sailing In RIMPAC Wargames

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Jul 19, 2024

The Arleigh Burke-class destroyer USS Carney (DDG 64) visits Naval Station Norfolk following a seven-month deployment, May 10. Throughout the ship’s seven-month deployment to the U.S. 5th and 6th Fleet areas of operations, Carney successfully destroyed Houthi-launched weapons, including land attack cruise missiles, anti-ship ballistic missiles, and unmanned systems.
Arleigh Burke Class

USS Carney Destroyed 65 Houthi Targets During Its Cruise

By Howard Altman

Posted on May 13, 2024

A variety of US and other foreign military assets, including US Navy Arleigh Burke class destroyers helped shoot down Iranian missiles and drones heading for targets in Israel.
Arleigh Burke Class

Signs Point To Combat Debut Of Navy’s SM-3 Interceptor Against Iranian Ballistic Missiles

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Apr 14, 2024

The US Navy is looking to add RIM-116 Rolling Airframe Missiles to the arsenals of most of its Arleigh Burke class destroyers, and is pushing ahead with other more substantial upgrades for those ships, too.
Arleigh Burke Class

Rolling Airframe Missiles To Arm Arleigh Burke Destroyer Fleet

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Apr 9, 2024

ITALIAN NAVY CAIO DUILIO
Destroyers

Italian Destroyer Guns Down Houthi Drone With 76mm ‘Super Rapid’ Cannon

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Mar 4, 2024

Sea Viper missiles being loaded onto HMS Diamond
Destroyers

British Destroyer Rearming In Gibraltar, Heading Back To Red Sea

By Tyler Rogoway

Posted on Feb 26, 2024

HMS Diamond's kill markings against drone
Destroyers

HMS Diamond Sports Kill Markings As It Pulls Into Gibraltar

By Tyler Rogoway

Posted on Feb 12, 2024

Coyote Drone intercepting another drone
Arleigh Burke Class

Navy Looking For Counter-Drone Systems That Can Be Rapidly Added To Its Ships

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Feb 2, 2024

STANDARD MISSILE-6, SM-6 LAUNCH
Arleigh Burke Class

Navy’s SM-6 Missile Used In Combat: Report

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Feb 1, 2024

The Phalanx Close-In Weapons System (CIWS). (U.S. Navy)
Arleigh Burke Class

Phalanx CIWS Downs Houthi Missile Dangerously Close To Destroyer: Report

By Howard Altman

Posted on Feb 1, 2024

USS Carney Defends Itself From Missile Attack, Tanker Reportedly Hit
Arleigh Burke Class

USS Carney Defends Itself From Missile Attack, Tanker Reportedly Hit

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Jan 26, 2024

A U.S. fighter shot down a Houthi anti-ship cruise missile heading to the USS Laboon.
Arleigh Burke Class

American Fighter Downs Houthi Missile Heading Toward USS Laboon

By Howard Altman

Posted on Jan 15, 2024

The U.S. struck a Houthi radar in Yemen early Saturday morning local time.
Arleigh Burke Class

Navy Strikes Houthi Radar Site With Tomahawk Cruise Missile

By Howard Altman

Posted on Jan 13, 2024

Super Hornets from the aircraft carrier Dwight David Eisenhower struck Houthi missile installations today.
Arleigh Burke Class

Super Hornets Score Aerial Kills Over Red Sea

By Tyler Rogoway

Posted on Dec 26, 2023

The USS Carney attacked a Houthi radar site in Yemen.
Arleigh Burke Class

Three Cargo Ships Hit By Houthi Missiles, U.S. Destroyer Downs Drones

By Howard Altman

Updated on Dec 3, 2023

The USS Mason responded to an emergency call from an oil tanker that was fired upon by Houthi anti-ship ballistic missiles that missed.
Arleigh Burke Class

Claims Swirl Around Apparent Missile Attack On U.S. Destroyer (Updated)

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Nov 27, 2023

The USS Hudner came under attack by a Houthi drone and shot it down, a U.S. official told The War Zone.
Arleigh Burke Class

U.S. Warship Shoot Down Of Drone Over Red Sea Leads To Conflicting Assessments

By Howard Altman

Posted on Nov 16, 2023

Thanks to a new set of photos, we’ve got what’s probably our best look so far at the U.S. Navy’s Surface Electronic Warfare Improvement Program (SEWIP) Block III, a radical overhaul of the Arleigh Burke class destroyers that leaves the warships looking very different indeed.
Arleigh Burke Class

Destroyer Looks Radically Different After Electronic Warfare Upgrade

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Nov 8, 2023

Uss Carney shot down multiple drones and cruise missiles over the Red Sea
Arleigh Burke Class

USS Carney Shot Down More Missiles, Drones Over Longer Period

By Howard Altman

Posted on Oct 20, 2023

A dozen nations have issued a warning to the Houthis to stop attacking Red Sea shipping.
Arleigh Burke Class

USS Carney Shoots Down Missiles, Drones Fired From Yemen

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Oct 19, 2023

The addition of the new AN/SLQ-32(V)7 Surface Electronic Warfare Improvement Program Block III to the USS Pinckney has changed the external shape of the ship significantly, as well as given it impressive additional electronic warfare capabilities.
Arleigh Burke Class

Navy Destroyer Looks Significantly Different After Major Upgrade

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Sep 22, 2023

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Type 055

This Is China’s New Type 054B Frigate, Could Become Backbone Of Navy

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Aug 28, 2023

Chinese Carrier Recently Sailed Near Guam, Enters South China Sea
Type 055

Chinese Carrier Recently Sailed Near Guam, Enters South China Sea

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Apr 25, 2023

USS Zumwalt guided-missile destroyer
Destroyers

Navy’s Stealth Destroyers Could Get Massive Upgrades Beyond Hypersonic Missiles

By Emma Helfrich, Tyler Rogoway

Posted on Nov 22, 2022

Swarmed Navy Destroyer Had Its Bridge Illuminated By Mysterious Drones
Arleigh Burke Class

Swarmed Navy Destroyer Had Its Bridge Illuminated By Mysterious Drones

By Joseph Trevithick, Adam Kehoe and Marc Cecotti

Posted on Oct 14, 2022

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Arleigh Burke Class

Chinese J-15 Fighters Fly Directly Over U.S. Navy Destroyer In New Video

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Sep 26, 2022

USS Zumwalt deploys to Guam
Zumwalt Class

Navy’s Stealth Destroyer May Be On Its First Operational Deployment

By Emma Helfrich

Posted on Sep 21, 2022

USS Bainbridge lightning destroyer
Arleigh Burke Class

Striking Image Of USS Bainbridge Sailing Through A Lightning Storm

By Oliver Parken, Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Aug 30, 2022

Drone swarm socal zumwalt
Zumwalt Class

Video Of Mysterious Drone Swarm Over Navy’s Most Advanced Destroyer Released (Updated)

By Adam Kehoe and Marc Cecotti

Posted on Aug 30, 2022

A look at the new High-Energy Laser with Integrated Optical Dazzler and Surveillance (HELIOS) laser directed energy weapon installed on the Arleigh Burke class destroyer USS Preble, with an inset showing a rendering of the system. (U.S. Navy/Lockheed Martin)
Arleigh Burke Class

Here’s Our First Look At A HELIOS Laser-Armed Navy Destroyer

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Aug 24, 2022

A picture of the US Navy's future Flight III Arleigh Burke class destroyer USS Jack H. Lucas being fitted out, now with the fixed-face arrays for its new AN/SPY-6(V)1 installed.
Arleigh Burke Class

First Images Of SPY-6 Radar Installed On New Flight III Arleigh Burke Destroyer

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Aug 12, 2022

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Type 055

Our Most Detailed Look Yet At China’s Type 055 Super Destroyer

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Aug 3, 2022

Maps and pictures showing various Chinese and Russian naval vessels that have been sailing around Japanese territory in June 2022.
Type 055

Burst Of Chinese, Russian Naval Activity Tracked In Waters Around Japan

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Jun 21, 2022

Hatsuyuki class
Destroyers

This Shot Of 11 Japanese Hatsuyuki-Class Destroyers Is Damn Impressive

By Emma Helfrich

Posted on Jun 17, 2022

Anti-ship ballistic missile launch Type 055
Type 055

Mysterious New Missile Launched By China’s Giant Type 055 Destroyer

By Tyler Rogoway

Posted on Apr 21, 2022

This Is What We Now Know About The Navy’s Future DDG(X) Destroyer
Destroyers

This Is What We Now Know About The Navy’s Future DDG(X) Destroyer

By Thomas Newdick

Updated on Jan 14, 2022

The Navy’s $9B Stealthy Super Destroyer Is Covered In Rust
Zumwalt Class

The Navy’s $9B Stealthy Super Destroyer Is Covered In Rust

By Tyler Rogoway

Updated on Dec 17, 2021

Navy’s Newest Destroyer Was Just Commissioned Flying A Giant “Go For Broke” Flag
Arleigh Burke Class

Navy’s Newest Destroyer Was Just Commissioned Flying A Giant “Go For Broke” Flag

By Tyler Rogoway

Updated on Dec 9, 2021

Video Shows U.S. Destroyer’s Very Intimate Standoff With Iranian Vessels Over Seized Oil Tanker (Updated)
Arleigh Burke Class

Video Shows U.S. Destroyer’s Very Intimate Standoff With Iranian Vessels Over Seized Oil Tanker (Updated)

By Joseph Trevithick

Updated on Nov 4, 2021

The Navy’s Stealth Destroyers Will Have Their Deck Guns Replaced With Hypersonic Missiles
Zumwalt Class

The Navy’s Stealth Destroyers Will Have Their Deck Guns Replaced With Hypersonic Missiles

By Joseph Trevithick

Updated on Nov 2, 2021