1 radar arrays. Now, the Navy has announced a different rendering of the DDG(X), and there are wholesale changes. There is no Mark 45 Mod 4 main gun, and other modifications have been reconsidered.

which extends several decks below the guns, will be removed. And that creates an opportunity. That opportunity is to the make DDG 1000 a hypersonic strike missile platform. The Navy’s current ...

Like the larger Ticonderoga-class cruisers, DDG 51's combat capability centers around the Aegis Weapon System (AWS). AWS is composed of the SPY-1D multi-function phased array radar, advanced AAW ...

Late last year, USS Pinckney (DDG-91) wrapped up the first part of a ... Fisher’s double bun hairstyle in Star Wars. Standing two decks high, the sponsons were added to the superstructure ...

The heart of the system is the AN/SPY-1, an advanced, automatic detect and track, multi-function phased-array radar ... The first ship of the DDG 51 class, USS Arleigh Burke, was commissioned ...

In fact, a main feature of the DDG 1000 deckhouse is that the antennas—or apertures—are embedded directly in the structure itself. The deck house is covered with radar absorbing material.

"This is a significant delivery in the history of Ingalls Shipbuilding," said Steve Sloan, the company's DDG 1000 program manager. "Building composite ship structures takes a very unique skill-set and ...