along with six surface warships and two subs. A U.S. Navy guided-missile destroyer arrived in the Chinese port of Qingdao on Monday.

Technological advances have improved the capability of modern destroyers culminating in the Arleigh Burke (DDG 51) class replacing the older Charles F. Adams and Farragut class guided missile ...

American missiles were used to engage most of the enemy targets, but the destroyer was forced to employ the five-inch gun against one of the drones. Anyone who might have questioned why the U.S ...

However, sailors aboard USS Stockdale (DDG-106) used their destroyer’s five-inch mounted gun to take down a Houthi uncrewed aerial vehicle at the tail end of 2024. As described by Vice Adm.

The Arleigh Burke-class destroyers USS Stockdale and USS Spruance (DDG-111), joined by the Freedom-class Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) USS Indianapolis (LCS-17) "were transiting the Bab al-Mandeb ...

A Chinese simulation allegedly showed that a single Type 055 destroyer and escort could weather an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer missile bombardment. The war game was set in the western Pacific, just ...