Like the larger Ticonderoga-class cruisers, DDG 51's combat capability centers around ... (CEC), Evolved Sea Sparrow Missile (ESSM), CIWS Blk 1B, SEWIP, and NULKA. The Arleigh Burke-class MK ...

Code-named DDG 51, they were here to replace the Charles ... Arleigh Burkes also pack torpedoes, a CIWS, and guns.

It had been previously reported that DDG-106, operating with USS O’Kane ... The destroyer used its Phalanx Close-in Weapons System (CIWS) to take out the incoming missile!

To put things in perspective the U.S. Navy's Phalanx CIWS gun has only six barrels. The new gun is based on China's older, seven-barreled, Type 730 system capable of firing 5,800 rounds per minute.

“By successfully leveraging competition throughout the DDG-51 shipbuilding program, the Navy continues to generate cost savings while delivering vital warfighting capability,” DDG-51 program ...

On Wednesday, Collins said Navy officials told her they would order nine more DDG-51 destroyers. Navy spokesman Lt. Clay Doss said the Navy had truncated the DDG-1000 program in its budget plans ...