In July 2008, Navy announced its decision to truncate the DDG 1000 program at three ships and restart the construction of BMD capable DDG 51s. The Department’s decision to truncate the DDG 1000 ...

Photo courtesy Edward Lundquist HII’s Ingalls Shipbuilding division successfully undocked USS Zumwalt (DDG 1000), the lead ship of the U.S. Navy’s Zumwalt-class of guided missile destroyers on ...

The Department of Defense last month issued a small contract for a Navy project to develop and provide a modular energy ...

The United States Navy’s famed stealth destroyer, the USS Zumwalt (DDG-1000), is being retrofitted ... The works are planned for all three of the ships of the class and are being undertaken ...

“USS Zumwalt is the Navy’s battlewagon of the 21st century,” Zumwalt said. “There is a lot of coincidence between the ship and its namesake,” said Zumwalt. DDG-1000 will transform the ...

However, the service’s rocky past procurements including the Littoral Combat Ship programs ... Currently, the Navy’s Arleigh ...

The following post has been updated with details on USS Michael Monsoor (DDG-1001 ... The original plan for almost 30 ships was reduced to three as the Navy backed off mass producing the ...

The ship class eventually became known as DDG 1000 and through the early part of the 2000s the construction plans shifted multiple times as Navy shipbuilding plans evolved. The eventual result is ...

The first rendering of DDG(X), unveiled at the 2022 SNA symposium, featured a 5-inch Mark 45 Mod 4 on the bow of the ship, but there are signs that the Navy has been rethinking that configuration.

The dual-band radar (DBR) aboard the Navy aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78), the ship’s primary sensor system, ...

As the US Navy (USN) moves to modernise and augment its guided-missile destroyer (DDG) fleet, the service is dealing with ...