Arleigh-Burke class Destroyers

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## Information

### Derivatives

Atago-class, Kongo-class, Maya-class (Japan)Sejong the Great-class (South Korea)

From Wikipedia:

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. The class is named for Admiral Arleigh Burke, an American destroyer officer in World War II and later Chief of Naval Operations. With an overall length of 505 to 509.5 feet (153.9 to 155.3 m), displacement ranging from 8,300 to 9,700 tons, and weaponry including over 90 missiles, the *Arleigh Burke*-class destroyers are larger and more heavily armed than many previous classes of guided-missile cruisers.

These warships are multi-mission destroyers able to conduct anti-aircraft warfare (AAW) with Aegis and surface-to-air missiles; tactical land strikes with Tomahawk missiles; anti-submarine warfare (ASW) with towed array sonar, anti-submarine rockets, and ASW helicopters; and anti-surface warfare (ASuW) with Harpoon missiles. With upgrades to their AN/SPY-1 phased radar systems and their associated missile payloads as part of the Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense System, ships of this class have also demonstrated capability as mobile anti-ballistic missile and anti-satellite platforms.

The lead ship of the class, USS Arleigh Burke, was commissioned during Admiral Burke's lifetime on 4 July 1991. With the decommissioning of the last *Spruance*-class destroyer, USS *Cushing*, on 21 September 2005, the ***Arleigh Burke*-class ships** became the U.S. Navy's only active destroyers until the *Zumwalt* class became active in 2016. The ***Arleigh Burke* class** has the longest production run for any U.S. Navy surface combatant. As of October 2023, all seventy-three built are active, with nineteen more planned to enter service.

### Characteristics

#### Variants

The **Arleigh Burke class** has 4 variants, known as Flights:

* Flight I: DDG 51-71
* Flight II: DDG 72-78
* Flight IIA: DDG 79-124
* Flight III: DDG 125-126 and 128 onwards

### Armament

##### Guns:

###### Main Armament:

* DDG 51-80: 5-inch (127 mm)/54 Mk 45 Mod 1/2 (x1)
* DDG 80 onwards: 5-inch (127 mm)/62 Mk 45 Mod 4 (x1)

###### Anti-Air:

* DDG 51-84: 20mm Phalanx CIWS (x1)
* DDG 85 onwards: 20mm Phalanx CIWS (x1), 25mm Mk 38 Machine Gun System (x2) ODIN Dazzling System (x1)

##### Missiles:

* Mk 141 Harpoon Anti-Ship Missile (x2) (Flight I and II only)
* Mk 41 Vertical Launch System (Flight I and II 90 cells, Flight IIA and III 96 cells)
* RIM-66M SAMs
* RIM-156 SAMs
* RIM-174A ERAM
* RIM-164 ABM (BMD-equipped vessels only)
* RIM-162 Quad-Packed ESSM (DDG 79 onwards)
* BMG-109 Tomahawk Cruise Missile
* RUM-139 Vertical Launch ASROC
* SeaRAM1 (1 launcher)

##### Torpedoes

* Mk 32 Torpedo Tubes (x2) using:
* Mark 46
* Mark 50
* Mark 54

#### Aircraft

* 2 MH-60R Seahawk LAMPS helicopters (IIA and III only)

### Ships in the Class

From DDG 51 to DDG 140:

* USS Arleigh Burke
* USS Barry
* USS John Paul Jones
* USS Curtis Wilbur
* USS Stout
* USS John S. McCain
* USS Mitscher
* USS Laboon
* USS Russel
* USS Paul Hamilton
* USS Ramage
* USS Fitzgerald
* USS Stethem
* USS Carney
* USS Benfold
* USS Gonzalez
* USS Cole
* USS The Sullivans
* USS Milius
* USS Hopper
* USS Ross
* USS Mahan
* USS Decatur
* USS McFaul
* USS Donald Cook
* USS Higgins
* USS O'Kane
* USS Porter
* USS Oscar Austin
* USS Roosevelt
* USS Winston S. Churchill
* USS Lassen
* USS Howard
* USS Bulkeley
* USS McCampbell
* USS Shoup
* USS Mason
* USS Preble
* USS Mustin
* USS Chafee
* USS Pinckney
* USS Momsen
* USS Chung-Hoon
* USS Nitze
* USS James E. Williams
* USS Bainbridge
* USS Halsey
* USS Forrest Sherman
* USS Farragut
* USS Kidd
* USS Gridley
* USS Sampson
* USS Truxtun
* USS Sterett
* USS Dewey
* USS Stockdale
* USS Gravely
* USS Wayne E. Meyer
* USS Jason Dunham
* USS William P. Lawrence
* USS Spruance
* USS Michael Murphy
* USS John Finn
* USS Ralph Johnson
* USS Rafael Peralta
* USS Thomas Hudner
* USS Paul Ignatius
* USS Daniel Inouye
* USS Delbert D. Black
* USS Carl M. Levin
* USS Frank E. Petersen Jr.
* USS John Basilone
* USS Lenah Sutcliffe Higbee
* USS Harvey C. Barnum Jr.
* USS Jack H. Lucas
* USS Louis H. Wilson Jr.
* USS Patrick Gallagher
* USS Ted Stevens
* USS Jeremiah Denton
* USS William Charette
* USS George M. Neal
* USS Quentin Walsh
* USS Sam Nunn
* USS John E. Kilmer
* USS Thad Cochran
* USS Richard G. Lugar
* USS John F. Lehman
* USS J. William Middendorf
* USS Telesforo Trinidad
* USS Thomas G. Kelley
* USS Ernest E. Evans
* 1 unnamed ship (142)