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At some point, the DDG-51s will get replaced, so here's a topic for posting information, commentary, and speculation.

https://www.navsea.navy.mil/Home/Team-Ships/PEO-Ships/DDG-X/

https://news.usni.org/2024/01/10/navy-wants-3-year-overlap-between-arleigh-burkes-and-ddgx-considering-propulsion-system

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From the USNI article linked above:

January 10, 2024

ARLINGTON, Va. – The Navy is looking for a three-year overlap between the start of construction on its next-generation guided-missile destroyer DDG(X) and its current crop of Flight III Arleigh Burke DDGs, the director of Navy surface warfare told USNI News on Wednesday...

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At an estimated 13,500 tons with a cost of up to $3.4 billion, the DDG(X) is set to replace the legacy Burkes that have been in the fleet since the early 1990s.

The Navy will be the design agent for the new ship, working in conjunction with the two existing guided-missile destroyer yards – General Dynamics Bath Iron Works in Bath, Maine, and HII’s Ingalls Shipbuilding in Pascagoula, Miss.

The service is keen on feathering in the DDG(X) to create a smooth transition at the yards from the Flight IIIs...

...Last year, the service stood up a land-based propulsion test system in Philadelphia, Pa., to prove out the early propulsion train for DDG(X)...

 

The growth continues.

Doug

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The big news with DDG 51s is the 2.0 program. Total replacement of the radars, ECM, and core processors and software to a pseudo Flt III level.

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On 1/13/2024 at 2:27 PM, Ol Paint said:

At some point, the DDG-51s will get replaced, so here's a topic for posting information, commentary, and speculation.

https://www.navsea.navy.mil/Home/Team-Ships/PEO-Ships/DDG-X/

https://news.usni.org/2024/01/10/navy-wants-3-year-overlap-between-arleigh-burkes-and-ddgx-considering-propulsion-system

The growth continues.

Doug

What is depressing is what is on the sidebar to the right, a diversity and inclusion essay 🚾 

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USN Vaporware class.

 

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https://cdrsalamander.substack.com/p/red-sea-experience-dont-let-others

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Never forget—you’ve heard me say it 1,000 times over a couple of decades—when war at sea starts one thing becomes very clear, very fast: you don’t have enough guns, and those you have are a size smaller than you really need.

https://www.twz.com/news-features/navy-just-disclosed-how-many-of-each-of-its-surface-to-air-missiles-it-fired-during-red-sea-fight

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The U.S. Navy’s surface fleet has fired nearly 400 individual munitions while battling Iran-backed Houthi rebels in the Red Sea over the past 15 months. That includes the firing of 120 SM-2 missiles, 80 SM-6 missiles, 160 rounds from destroyers and cruisers’ five-inch main guns, as well as a combined 20 Evolved Sea Sparrow Missiles (ESSM) and SM-3 missiles.

 

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“We’ve done the analysis with what we used to shoot in World War II, and we’re at about two rounds per incoming missile,” McLane said. 

 

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“It’s really the hours and days instead of weeks and months, that’s what we weren’t 100% ready for,” Cheever said. “The speed of this thing is minute, hours, days, maybe, but days is even probably late to need as we work this thing.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DDG(X)

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A new rendering released by Program Executive Office (PEO) Ships and obtained by Naval News in early January 2025 shows DDG(X) omitting the 5-inch Mark 45 naval gun entirely.

PEO Ships is run by traitors. Change my mind.

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