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The Arleigh Burke Destroyer’s Mk 45 Cannon Has a New Role: Drone Defense
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.
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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‘Hunger for power’: US plans advanced modular batteries for all-electric destroyers
Zumwalt-class warship USS Michael Monsoor will replace one of its weapons systems with large-scale energy storage.
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U.S. Approves Standard Missile-6 Sale for Japan’s Aegis Destroyers
While Japan is in the process of massively up-gunning itself with other U.S. weapons, the SM-6 represents a specific ...
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 ...
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USN Destroyer USS Spruance Earns 13 Kill Marks in the Red Sea
The U.S. Navy is likely to continue its deployment in the Red Sea to protect the shipping route. As cruel and heartless as it may seem, kill marks (aka victory markings) are a time-honored method for ...
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“Failure to Manage”: The Ticonderoga-class Cruiser Modernization Debacle
The U.S. Navy wasted $1.84 billion on ships that provided zero operational value to the fleet after their modernization ...
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‘Hunger for power’: US plans advanced modular batteries for all-electric destroyers
Named LOC-NESS (Long Operation Combatant Naval Energy Storage System), this initiative aims to enhance the capabilities of the Navy’s all-electric DDG-1000 class destroyers and other maritime ...