How Should The Navy Power Its Next Destroyer?
Loren Thompson
Senior Contributor
Feb 27, 2023,11:38am EST
The U.S. Navy has begun development of a successor to the DDG-51 Arleigh Burke class of destroyers. It plans to commence construction of what is currently known as the DDG(X) in 2030, with an eye to replacing all of its remaining Ticonderoga-class cruisers and its oldest Burke destroyers—49 warships in all.
DDG(X) will thus be the Navy’s biggest surface-combatant construction program through mid-century. Once work commences on the lead ship, production of the Burke class will gradually cease, leaving DDG(X) and a companion frigate called the Constellation class as the nation’s only programs for modernizing the fleet of surface combatants.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/lorenthompson/2023/02/27/how-should-the-navy-power-its-next-destroyer/?sh=6a62211d52ea
