The destroyer's armament has greatly expanded the role of the ship in strike warfare utilizing the MK-41 Vertical Launch System (VLS). Technological advances have improved the capability of modern ...

US Navy destroyer that spent months taking on Houthi rebels in the Red Sea is now headed to the US-Mexico border to support ...

larger G-VLS launchers, enabling the launch of new hypersonic missiles. An important modification is the possibility of installing an additional hull section called the Destroyer Payload Module ...

and DDG 1002 steel deckhouse, hangar and aft Peripheral Vertical Launch System (PVLS). Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII) is responsible for the fabrication of the composite deckhouse ...

It's a Renhai-class destroyer that measures 591-feet long with ... which it can fire from its 112 universal VLS (vertical launch system) tubes. There are 64 tubes positioned near the bow, and ...

At 190 meters and over 14,000 tons, ASEV surpasses China's Type 055 destroyer (classed as a cruiser by NATO) on many measures with AN/SPY-7 AESA radar, 128 vertical launch system (VLS) cells ...