The first Flight IIA, USS Oscar Austin, was commissioned in August 2000. A DDG modernization program is underway to provide a comprehensive mid-life upgrade that will ensure the DDG 51 class will ...

The eponymous USS Arleigh Burke (DDG 51) was commissioned in July 1991. General characteristics, Arleigh Burke guided missile destroyer The Arleigh Burke-class employs all-steel construction and ...

Its Bath Iron Works business unit builds the DDG-51 Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile ... Its freedom-variant LCS, USS Nantucket (LCS 27), is a resilient, flexible warship designed to serve ...

USS Arleigh Burke (DDG 51), the first warship in the class, was commissioned in 1991. Subsequently, the first 21 destroyers ...

The Department’s decision to truncate the DDG 1000 program and continue building DDG 51 class ships triggered a Nunn McCurdy critical cost breach due primarily to a reduction in total ...