To prevent a break in production, the Navy is backtracking on recently hatched plans for shipbuilding. The Navy had long planned to buy seven modernized DDG-1000, Zumwalt-class destroyers.

The U.S. Navy’s shipbuilding plan is a disaster.So it should come as no surprise that the fleet’s plan for a new destroyer also is a mess. The two problems are related.

The U.S. Navy is in the very early stages of developing a new destroyer -- called the Future Surface Combatant -- which will replace the existing Arleigh Burke-class destroyers and enter service ...

As a test of the stance, in 1985 U.S. requested a guided missile destroyer – the former USS Buchanan (DDG-14) – come to New Zealand for a port call. “The Americans assessed that it might ...

The existing Arleigh Burke class of destroyers is the most successful surface warship in modern history. The Burke class, referred to in naval nomenclature as DDG-51, is by far the most capable ...