Around a century later, the USS Arleigh Burke is a new variety of guided missile destroyer. The Arleigh Burke class were the first ships of their kind to feature the AEGIS system, which combines ...

SM-6 unit cost is ~$4m-$8m. Presently, the JMSDF operates a total of eight Aegis-equipped destroyers. These include four Kongo-class destroyers, commissioned in the 1990s and upgraded with the ...

Adams and Farragut class guided missile destroyers. Like the larger Ticonderoga-class cruisers, DDG 51's combat capability centers around the Aegis Weapon System (AWS). AWS is composed of the SPY ...

The smaller size means that a crew of only about 90 is required, about half the size of other destroyers and one-third the crew size of an Aegis-class warship. The switch to sleeker vessels was ...

According to the U.S. Navy, each Arleigh Burke-class destroyer has been “built around the Aegis Combat System,” and the vessels continue to be “the backbone of the U.S. Navy’s surface ...

Modern destroyers continue to serve ... will be similar to the Aegis combat system employed on the Arleigh Burke-class Flight III DDGs, while the propulsion for the DDG(X) could be based on ...

Bath Iron Works Corporation BIW) has begun fabrication on the irst Aegis ... in this class currently planned by the Navy. As lead yard for design and construction of the Burke destroyers, BIW ...