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USS Arleigh Burke (DDG-51), named for Admiral Arleigh A. Burke, USN (1901–1996), is the lead ship of the Arleigh Burke-class Aegis guided missile destroyer. She is of the Flight I variant. She was laid down by the Bath Iron Works company at Bath, Maine , on 6 December 1988; launched on 16 September 1989; and commissioned on 4 July 1991.
The Arleigh Burke class of guided-missile destroyers (DDGs) is a United States Navy class of destroyer centered around the Aegis Combat System and the SPY-1D multi-function passive electronically scanned array radar.
USS Howard (DDG-83) is 33rd Arleigh Burke-class Aegis guided missile destroyer in the United States Navy. She is named for Medal of Honor recipient First Sergeant Jimmie E. Howard, USMC . Howard was the 19th ship of her class to be built by Bath Iron Works at Bath, Maine , and construction began on 8 December 1998.
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USS John Paul Jones (DDG-53) is an Arleigh Burke-class Aegis guided missile destroyer. in the United States Navy and the first ship of the class homeported on the west coast. She is the fifth ship named after American Revolutionary War naval captain John Paul Jones and the second to carry his first name.
USS Gridley, an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer The first automotive torpedo was developed in 1866, and the torpedo boat was developed soon after. In 1898, while the Spanish–American War was being fought in the Caribbean and the Pacific, Assistant Secretary of the Navy Theodore Roosevelt wrote that the Spanish torpedo boat destroyers were the only threat to the American Navy, and pushed for ...
Production of Arleigh Burke class continued and it became the U.S. Navy's only operational class of destroyers after the USS Cushing, the last Spruance-class destroyer on active service, was decommissioned on 21 September 2005. [15] Cushing was unsuccessfully offered to the Pakistan Navy before being sunk as a target on 29 April 2009.
USS Gonzalez (DDG-66) is sixteenth Arleigh Burke-class Aegis guided missile destroyer in the United States Navy. She is named for Sergeant Alfredo Cantu Gonzalez , a Medal of Honor recipient in the Vietnam War .