The warships - the USS Sampson, USS Jason Dunham and USS Gravely - are Arleigh Burke class destroyers, the backbone of the Navy's surface fleet. Known for their versatility and advanced combat systems ...

The Navy plans to name a new Arleigh Burke-class destroyer after Cpl. Kyle Carpenter, a former Marine who was awarded the Medal of Honor for an act of heroism during vicious fighting in Afghanistan ...

The Navy has voiced a goal of having 75 mission-capable warships that would be able to deploy at a moment’s notice anywhere in the world in support of combat operations. As its global operational ...

The Norfolk-based Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Gravely is heading to the waters off Venezuela to support President Donald Trump’s effort to combat drug cartels. Gravely and two ...

Throughout its history, the destroyer has been one of the most important and powerful vessels in the United States Navy fleet. Primarily tasked with ship escort and fleet protection roles, a destroyer ...

A U.S. Coast Guard Law Enforcement Detachment, embarked the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Sampson, intercepted a suspected drug smuggling vessel in the Eastern Pacific last week.

President Trump has ordered the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyers to the southern Caribbean, off the coast of Venezuela International human-rights advocates, legal experts and drug policy ...

The Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer Higgins transits through the Arabian Gulf on Dec. 1, 2015, during exercise Spartan Kopis. (MC2 Gabriel Bevan/Navy) The U.S. Navy issued a strong ...

President Trump has ordered the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyers to the southern Caribbean, off the coast of Venezuela U.S. naval forces have conducted another lethal strike on a vessel ...

More than 700 sailors returned to San Diego this week after a nine-month deployment that took them far from home and close to the hot spots in the Middle East. The Ticonderoga-class guided-missile ...

The Navy’s DDG(X) program envisages procuring a class of next-generation guided-missile destroyers (DDGs) to replace the Navy’s Ticonderoga (CG-47) class Aegis cruisers and older Arleigh Burke (DDG-51 ...

Officially, the three Arleigh Burke-class destroyers are anchored off Venezuela on a “counter-narcotics” mission—but that mission set could be a catch-all term for other military activities. Whatever ...