It comes as the size of the Navy’s surface fleet of destroyers and frigates reached a historic low despite increasing conflict across the globe. Of the six state-of-the-art Type 45 destroyer ...

The Navy announced that four more ... While extending the service lives of these destroyers partly reflects concerns about maintaining the size of the fleet, it also takes other factors into ...

The hull designation seen on every vessel in the Navy tells servicepeople which ship is which and helps differentiate between ...

It's possible that the Navy could afford only one of the ships per year, compared to current destroyer build rates of two to three per year, shrinking the size of the fleet over time, Clark said.

Mike Gilday said the stealth destroyers would be the first Navy ... However, after the Navy reduced the size of its Zumwalt fleet, manufacturing costs for the Long-Range Land-Attack Projectile ...

The Pentagon wants a U.S. Navy destroyer to help shake things up along ... and other weapons—against boats a fraction of its size carries out an even simpler mission: intimidation.

The service then moved on to its Zumwalt-class destroyer series. However, exorbitant costs led the Navy to cut down the class size to a mere three guided missile destroyers. In 2021, the DDG(X ...