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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Lockheed Martin received funding for development and integration of the Aegis combat system solution to equip the Royal Canadian Navy's new River-class destroyers, shown here in a rendering.