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Description: These fast warships help safeguard larger
ships in a fleet or battle group.Features: Destroyers and guided missile destroyers operate in support of carrier battle groups, surface action groups, amphibious groups and replenishment groups. Destroyers primarily perform anti-submarine warfare duty while guided missile destroyers are multi-mission (ASW, anti-air and anti-surface warfare) surface combatants. The addition of the Mk-41 Vertical Launch System or Tomahawk Armored Box Launchers (ABLs) to many Spruance-class destroyers has greatly expanded the role of the destroyer in strike warfare.
Background: Technological advances have improved the
capability of modern destroyers culminating in the Arleigh
Burke (DDG 51) class. Named for the Navy's most famous
destroyer
squadron combat commander and three-time Chief of Naval
Operations,
the Arleigh Burke was commissioned July 4, 1991 and was the
most powerful surface
combatant ever put to sea. Like the larger Ticonderoga
class cruisers, DDG-51's combat systems center around the Aegis
combat system and the SPY-lD, multi-function phased array radar.
The combination of Aegis, the Vertical Launching System, an
advanced anti-submarine warfare system, advanced anti-aircraft
missiles and Tomahawk
ASM/LAM, the Burke class continues the revolution at
sea.
Designed for survivability, DDG-51 incorporates all-steel
construction and many damage control features resulting from
lessons learned during the Falkland Islands War and from the
accidental attack on USS Stark. Like most modern U.S.
surface combatants, DDG-51 utilizes gas turbine propulsion.
These ships replaced the older Charles F. Adams and
Farragut-class guided missile destroyers.
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