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The destroyers USS Stockdale and USS Spruance came under fire as they were transiting the Bab al-Mandab Strait, a strategic maritime choke point between the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden.
USS Spruance (DDG-111) is a United States Navy Arleigh Burke-class destroyer. She is the 61st ship in her class. Spruance is the second ship to be named for Admiral Raymond A. Spruance (1886–1969), who commanded American naval forces at the Battles of Midway and the Philippine Sea. He was later Ambassador to the Philippines.
On the morning of September 27, 2024, while transiting the Red Sea with Arleigh Burke class destroyers USS Stockdale (DDG-106) and USS Spruance (DDG-111), she was attacked by roughly two dozen missiles and drones launched by Iranian backed Houthi rebels in Yemen. All missiles and drones were intercepted or missed their target outright.
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 ...
Cmdr. Douglas Robb, newly assumed commander of USS Spruance, was honored last week by a Concurrent Resolution of the Indiana Senate and House Statehouse resolution honors West Lafayette commander ...
USS Jack H. Lucas, the first Flight III destroyer, after her launch on 4 June 2021. In place of the canceled CG(X) program, the U.S. Navy began detailed design work on a DDG 51 Flight III design in FY2013. [147] The Navy planned to procure 24 Flight III ships from FY2016 to FY2031. [148] In June 2013, it awarded $6.2 billion in destroyer ...
Six Spruance-class destroyers fitting out, c. May 1975. One additional ship, USS Hayler, was ordered on 29 September 1979. Hayler was originally planned as a DDH (Destroyer, Helicopter) design, which would carry more anti-submarine helicopters than the standard design of the Spruance class. Eventually this plan to build a DDH was scrapped and a ...
Two ships of the United States Navy have been named USS Spruance, in honor of Admiral Raymond A. Spruance (1886–1969): USS Spruance (DD-963) was the lead ship of Spruance-class destroyers, launched in 1973 and struck in 2005; USS Spruance (DDG-111) is an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer, launched in 2010 and commissioned in 2011