DDG 1000 has a 50-fold radar cross section reduction compared to current destroyers, improves strike group defense 10-fold and has 10 times the operating area in shallow water regions against mines.
The Department of Defense last month issued a small contract for a Navy project to develop and provide a modular energy ...
Zumwalt-class warship USS Michael Monsoor will replace one of its weapons systems with large-scale energy storage.
The most recent estimates surrounding the DDG(X) indicate the destroyer will not become available ... Carlin has over 1,000 articles published over the last several years on various defense ...
The U.S. Navy’s latest “Zumwalt-class” destroyers will soon be commissioned for military operations, AP reported on Sunday.
The pedigree for DDG 1000 is not from the Spruance or Arleigh Burke class of guided missile destroyers, but rather it comes from the SC-21 (Surface Combatant for the 21st century) concept from 1994.
In wartime, the destroyers could use such an ability to ... been completed on the lead vessel of the class, USS Zumwalt (DDG-1000). The aforementioned 155mm gun mount has been removed and replaced ...
(now called Huntington Ingalls Industries), a proposed new class of destroyers began to make the headlines. The ship class eventually became known as DDG 1000 and through the early part of the ...