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The spectacular unauthorized demonstration of the turbine-powered Turbinia at the 1897 Spithead Navy Review, which, significantly, was of torpedo-boat size, prompted the Royal Navy to order a prototype turbine-powered destroyer, HMS Viper of 1899. This was the first turbine warship of any kind, and achieved a remarkable 34 knots (63 km/h; 39 ...
A destroyer of the Zumwalt class, the next after the Arleigh Burke class. Only 3 out of 32 planned Zumwalts were built. USS Michael Murphy (DDG-112) was originally intended to be the last of the Arleigh Burke class. The Navy planned to shift production to the Zumwalt-class destroyer focusing on NGFS and littoral operations. [131]
The treaty called for a freeze in the size and composition of the world's major navies, including the U.S. Navy, which ceased production of large capital ships and destroyers. [2] The London Naval Treaty, a 1930 agreement between the same parties (except France), established total destroyer tonnage limits for the navies. [2]
Also asked was at what point would the design grow large enough to become a torpedo target instead of a torpedo delivery system. [7] The answer that came back was that five 5 in (127 mm) dual-purpose guns , twelve torpedoes, and twenty-eight depth charges would be ideal, while a return to the 1,500-ton designs of the past was seen as undesirable.
Destroyer escort (DE) was the United States Navy mid-20th-century classification for a 20-knot ... As Cold War destroyer escorts became as large as wartime destroyers
USS Arleigh Burke (DDG-51) This is a list of destroyers of the United States Navy, sorted by hull number.It includes all of the series DD, DL, DDG, DLG, and DLGN. CG-47 Ticonderoga and CG-48 Yorktown were approved as destroyers (DDG-47 and DDG-48) and redesignated cruisers before being laid down; it is uncertain whether CG-49 Vincennes and CG-50 Valley Forge were ever authorized as destroyers ...
A guided-missile destroyer (DDG) is a destroyer whose primary armament is guided missiles so they can provide anti-aircraft warfare screening for the fleet. The NATO standard designation for these vessels is DDG , while destroyers which have a primary gun armament or a small number of anti-aircraft missiles sufficient only for point-defense are ...
The average costs of construction accordingly increased, to $4.24 billion, [1] [17] [18] [2] well exceeding the per-unit cost of a nuclear-powered Virginia-class submarine ($2.688 billion), [19] [20] and with the program's large development costs now attributable to only three ships, rather than the 32 originally planned, the total program cost ...