The US Navy needs a large surface warship to maintain any edge that it might still have over China in the Western Pacific.

As an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer, the USS Spruance was designed as a multi-mission warship capable of conducting anti-aircraft warfare, anti-submarine warfare, and anti-surface warfare.

By Steven Wills, Defense Opinion Writer. The U.S. Navy surface warfare enterprise has had several developments to cheer about moving into 2025. First, the AEGIS combat system works, and it […] ...

Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII) has launched the third of its Flight III Arleigh Burke-class destroyers at its shipyard in Virginia. The vessel, DDG 129, will be known as the USS Jeremiah Denton ...

USS Gravely is the fifty-seventh Arleigh Burke-class destroyer and has around the world over the years. The USS Gravely destroyer is being deployed to join the effort to secure the U.S. southern ...

HII’s Ingalls Shipbuilding division has launched the future USS Jeremiah Denton (DDG 129), the third Flight III Arleigh ...

On March 22, the USS Spruance, an Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer, left Naval Base San Diego heading south towards the ... and precision strike capabilities of the Spruance and Gravely ...

The U.S. Navy celebrated a significant milestone with the launch of the future USS Jeremiah Denton (DDG 129) at Huntington Ingalls Industries’ (HII) Ingalls Shipbuilding division in Pascagoula, ...

The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Gravely (DDG 107) returns to Naval Station Norfolk, July 14, 2024, concluding a nine-month deployment to the Atlantic. (Credit: U.S. Navy photo ...

The USS Gravely, an Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer most recently deployed to the Middle East, departed Virginia on Saturday on its new mission to operate in U.S. and international ...

the third Flight III Arleigh Burke-class destroyer to be built at the shipyard. Shipbuilders transferred DDG 129 from land to the company’s dry dock using translation railcars to support the ...