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Key Points and Summary: The U.S. Navy’s next-generation guided-missile destroyer, the DDG(X), is a critical “clean-sheet” ...
According to the Navy’s 2020 thirty-year shipbuilding plan, the service would start to acquire new vessels beginning in 2025, but it could take a while to get such a ship designed, and it is ...
The DDG (X) is slated to possess “96 standard Vertical Launch Systems (VLS) cells, with an ability to incorporate 12 larger missile launch cells, in place of 32 of the 96 VLS cells.