While Japan is in the process of massively up-gunning itself with other U.S. weapons, the SM-6 represents a specific ...

The United States has been attempting to develop a next-generation guided missile destroyer for over 30 years. Despite the passage of time and the expenditure of billions of dollars, successive ...

introducing the powerful Aegis Combat System and AN/SPY-1 radar. Initially planned as destroyers, their classification was ...

Adams and Farragut class guided missile destroyers. Like the larger Ticonderoga-class cruisers, DDG 51's combat capability centers around the Aegis Weapon System (AWS). AWS is composed of the SPY ...

The Navy's Ticonderoga-class cruisers were the first warships to be equipped with the Aegis Combat System ... were equipped with 122 vertical missile launchers capable of launching Tomahawk ...

The U.S. Navy commissioned its 27 Ticonderoga (CG 47) class Aegis guided missile cruiser on July 9, when USS Port Royal (CG 73) joined the U.S. Pacific Fleet during commissioning ceremonies in ...

By Kang Seung-woo South Korea and the United States wrapped up a three-day joint naval drill without much media hype ...

Monday’s drills will be held in international waters between Korea and Japan, bringing together South Korea’s 7,600-ton Aegis destroyer Yulgok Yi I, U.S. guided-missile destroyer USS Benfold ...

The deactivated warships were then cannibalized for parts for the remaining cruisers in the modernization program. Problems figuring out the future fleet The Navy's Ticonderoga-class cruisers were the ...