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IHS Jane's 360
April 19, 2018
The Hobart-class destroyers are the first warships outside the US Navy (USN) to be equipped with the CEC. The system is described by its supplier, Raytheon, as one that brings together radar data from geographically dispersed naval ships, aircraft, and ground-based units into a common and integratedÃâà...
The National Interest Online (blog)
April 19, 2018
The US Navy's stealthy destroyer will fire an Evolved Sea Sparrow Missile and SM-2 in 2019 from its Mk 57 Vertical Launch Systems, marking the first time the new ship will fire weapons as part of its ongoing combat activation process. The Navy is exploring a new range of weapons for its stealthy USSÃâà...
Stars and Stripes
April 19, 2018
“Destroyers are capable of sustained combat operations supporting forward presence, maritime security, sea control and deterrence,” the statement said. “Maintaining the most technologically advanced ships is vital to support the United States' commitment to the security, stability and prosperity of theÃâà...
NavyTimes.com
April 18, 2018
The guided-missile destroyers Donald Cook and Winston Churchill never fired a shot in Friday's allied airstrikes against Syria, but as it turns out, they were ... Other missiles came from the North Arabian Gulf and the eastern Mediterranean Sea, where the destroyer Higgins and the Virginia-class submarineÃâà...
Business Insider
April 17, 2018
When President Donald Trump threatened to strike Syria, the US Navy had only one destroyer in the region — leading people to assume it would take part. But when the attack occurred, that ship didn't fire — suggesting it may have been a distraction ploy. Instead, ships in the Red Sea fired a large portionÃâà...
CNN
April 11, 2018
Washington (CNN) Two US Navy destroyers armed with Tomahawk cruise missiles are in position and ready to be called into action, among other .... "Especially given deterrent threats from Russian officials, the United States will be hesitant to risk American pilots in these strikes and will most likely opt forÃâà...
NavyTimes.com
April 10, 2018
The destroyer Donald Cook departed Larnaca, Cyprus, Monday, after completing a scheduled port visit, according to a Navy statement. The service didn't say where the ship was cruising to next, but reports by CNN's Turkey service claimed the destroyer had moved out to Syrian territorial waters where itÃâà...
CNN
March 31, 2018
In the Philippine Sea (CNN) One hundred twenty years ago this month, US Navy Commodore George Dewey led a squadron of warships from Hong ..... Last year, two other guided missile destroyers -- the USS Fitzgerald and the USS John McCain -- suffered fatal collisions with merchant ships leaving 17Ãâà...
The Maritime Executive
March 13, 2018
Arleigh-Burke class destroyers conduct a variety of operations from peacetime presence and crisis response to sea control and power projection. The future USS Gallagher (DDG 127) will be capable of fighting air, surface and subsurface battles simultaneously, and will contain a combination of offensiveÃâà...
The Japan Times
March 13, 2018
The USS Carl Vinson aircraft carrier strike group has kicked off bilateral exercises with the Maritime Self-Defense Force, including one of the largest vessels in Japan's fleet, in the disputed South China Sea, the U.S. Navy said Tuesday. The navy, which said the Vinson was on a “regularly scheduledÃâà...
Newsday
March 13, 2018
The Navy's next destroyer warship will be named after Lance Cpl. Patrick Gallagher, an Irish immigrant from Lynbrook, who volunteered to serve in the Marines ... Chuck Schumer announced the prestigious honor Monday at a news conference overlooking the USS Intrepid, on Manhattan's West Side.
The National
March 5, 2018
America's ambassador to the UAE, Barbara Leaf addressed the ship's crew, before a short break in Dubai and the next stage of combat operations in the Arabian Gulf. “Since departing from San Diego with USS cruiser Bunker Hill, destroyers USS Sampson, Preble and Halsey the USS Theodore RooseveltÃâà...
Voice of America
March 5, 2018
Although this is the first time a U.S. aircraft carrier has made a port call to Vietnam, smaller U.S. warships have made visited as ties between the former foes have improved in recent years. Those port calls include a 2016 visit by submarine tender USS Frank Cable and guided-missile destroyer USS John S.
Boston Herald
March 4, 2018
A U.S. Navy destroyer that became an enduring symbol of freedom after it was damaged in a 2000 terror attack in Yemen that left 17 sailors dead and 39 others ... the USS Cole comes right to mind in terms of the loss of men and women of this country and their mission to continue to serve the United States.
Polygraph.info
March 3, 2018
Ambassador Anatoly Antonov was referring to the mid-February deployment of the U.S. guided-missile destroyer USS Carney to the Black Sea, where it joined the destroyer USS Ross. It was the first time the two warships deployed in the area simultaneously after participating in drills in the area in July.
Newsweek
February 21, 2018
The U.S. Navy has sent a missile destroyer to Europe's Black Sea to join another warship, the USS Ross, in a move that risks irking Russia once again. Moscow has persistently objected to Western military activities in the waters, on whose shore sits Crimea—the peninsula Russia annexed from Ukraine inÃâà...
NavyTimes.com
February 20, 2018
The Navy has deployed the guided-missile destroyer Carney to join the destroyer Ross in the Black Sea in a move that U.S. military officials told CNN is ... “Our decision to have two ships simultaneously operate in the Black Sea is proactive, not reactive,” said Vice Adm. Christopher Grady, commander of 6thÃâà...
The Diplomat
February 20, 2018
New budget documents reveal that the mission set of the new high-tech warship will now include anti-surface warfare. ... Zumwalt-class warships, the U.S. Navy's largest and technologically most advanced class of guided-missile destroyers, will be fitted with new long-range anti-ship missiles, according toÃâà...
USNI News
February 18, 2018
Under cover of darkness, U.S. Navy guided-missile destroyer USS Ross (DDG-71) slipped through the Bosporus Strait and into the Black Sea on Friday. The next day USS Carney (DDG-64) joined Ross. The ships are operating are part of an unspecified regional “proactive” presence mission in the seaÃâà...
USNI News
December 31, 1999
U.S and French guided-missile warships and a U.S. nuclear attack submarine launched land attack missiles on targets in Syria suspected to be targets related to chemical weapons, Pentagon officials said on Saturday. USNI News obtained video of Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser USS MontereyÃâà...
Sputnik International
December 31, 1999
US Navy warship the USS Carney was spotted passing through the Bosphorus on March, 4, leaving Black Sea where it had been stationed since January. What is notable, however, is that the latest SWIP "Block II" configuration is designed to counter anti-ship missiles. The ship itself is far from being theÃâà...
DefenseNews.com
December 31, 1999
The guided-missile destroyer USS Truxtun (DDG 103) transits the Atlantic Ocean. Truxtun will be the sole ... WASHINGTON — The Navy is canceling a program to install fuel-efficient hybrid electric drives in 34 destroyers, leaving only one destroyer with the technology, the Navy confirmed in a statement.
The Drive
December 31, 1999
U.S. Air Force General John Hyten, head of U.S. Strategic Command, has suggested he's interested in arming a variety of ships with a new nuclear-tipped cruise missile, including the stealthy Zumwalt-class destroyers, as well as guided missile submarines, or SSGNs, and attack subs. This only renewsÃâà...
The Diplomat
December 31, 1999
U.S. Strategic Command may seek to deploy low-yield nuclear weapons aboard Zumwalt-class warships, the U.S. Navy's largest and technologically most advanced class of guided-missile destroyers, according to the commander of U.S. Strategic Command, General John Hyten. As outlined in the recentlyÃâà...
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