The first hull is expected to hit the water in 2028 as a more nimble companion to the Navy’s larger warships, Navy Secretary ...

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 ...

The Arleigh Burke-class of destroyers are old. Though there are several variants of the venerable ship, the Navy drew up the original blueprints in the mid-1980s and the first hulls were commissioned ...

The Flight IIA destroyer will serve as a multi-mission surface combatant and, like other Arleigh Burke-class warships, can be employed in anti-air warfare (AAW), anti-submarine warfare (ASW), and anti ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: The Navy has squeezed out all the performance they can from the Arleigh Burke-class. Let’s hope that the LSC can be put into service before America’s Arleigh Burkes ...

An editor's note follows this story. The U.S. Navy is ramping up its surface warfare capabilities, with nearly $3 billion worth of new destroyers. On Tuesday, General Dynamics’ Bath Iron Works closed ...

This post has been updated to clarify that a new program office for the large surface combatant has not yet been created. Capt. Casey Moton said the current Arleigh Burke program office has a major ...

The Navy last week approved plans to keep the guided-missile destroyer USS Arleigh Burke in service another five years, meaning the first-in-class ship will have sailed for four decades before its ...

GE Aerospace's Marine Engines & Systems has received orders to supply eight LM2500 marine gas turbine engines for the U.S.

Seaman Recruit David L. Spearman of North Carolina, assigned to the destroyer Arleigh Burke, died Aug. 1 after he was lost overboard in the Baltic Sea. (Rick Bowmer/AP) The Navy identified the sailor ...

It has been almost thirty years since the USS Arleigh Burke (DDG 51) entered U.S. Navy service. Back then, in a Cold War fleet full of nuclear surface combatants and cruisers, the Arleigh Burke class ...

The following is a July 1991 piece from Proceedings on the new Arleigh Burke-class of guided missile destroyers from the commander’s perspective with the original title, “Arleigh Burke is Back.” Today ...