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Re: Arliegh Burke Class DDGs News & Developments

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Re: Arliegh Burke Class DDGs News & Developments

Their MK 41 VLS

Re: Arliegh Burke Class DDGs News & Developments

Module with reloadind crane occupied 3 cell's on 8.

Re: Arliegh Burke Class DDGs News & Developments

I post here for interogation that is related to MK 41, about the launcher K-VLS appears to be a derivative.

K-VLS is use on two ships class, Sejong the Great-class destroyer 48 cell's and Chungmugong Yi Sun-sin-class destroyer 24 cell's sure can receive K-ASROC and Hyunmoo III.

K-ASROC do in size 5.7 x 0.38 m, Hyunmoo III would 6.15 x 0.52 m.

But could receive SM-2ER measuring 8 x 0.34 m ?

Breathing more life into this thread...to date, 62 of these large, modern, and capable destroyers have been built for the US Navy.

Current plans call for:

1) Three more in what will be known as the Flight IIA Restart Program.
2) Seven additional in what will be known as the Flight IIA Technology Insertion Program
4) Then twelve to twenty-four more in the Fllight III Program for the Ticonderoga Replacement Program

When all is said and done, there will be either 84 to 96 of these destroyers built. The largest (by far) indidivual major combatant construction program since World War II.

Please post news, pictures, videos, etc. regarding the class here.

Here are some pictures to get the juices flowing:

Burke Flight II and II ships: (DDG-51 through DDG-78)


Length: 505 ft (153m)
Beam: 66 ft (20m)
Draft: 31 ft (9m)
Displace (Full Load): 8,300 tons
Propulsion: 4 GE LM2500, Gas Turbines; two shafts
Speed: 31 knots
Range: 4,400 nautical miles (20 knots)
Crew: 323
Helicopter(s): No hangar
Sensors:
- AN/SPY-1D Radar
- AN/SQQ-89 Sonar Suite
- AN/SQQ-28v LAMPS III
Armament:
- 21 cell Mk-41 VLS For SM-2, Tomahawk
- 69 cell Mk-41 VLS Aft SM-2, Tomahawk
- 8 Harpoon ASM
- 2 X 20mm Phalanx CIWS
- 1 X 127mm MK-45 DP Gun
- 6 X Mk-46 LW Torpedoes

Burke Flight IIA ships: (DDG-79 through DDG-112 (currently))


Length: 513 ft (155m)
Beam: 66 ft (20m)
Draft: 31 ft (9m)
Displace (Full Load): 9,200 tons
Propulsion: 4 GE LM2500, Gas Turbines; two shafts
Speed: 31 knots
Range: 4,400 nautical miles (20 knots)
Crew: 370
Helicopter(s): 2 SH-60 Seahawk
Sensors:
- AN/SPY-1D(v) Radar
- AN/SQQ-89 Sonar Suite
- AN/SQQ-28v LAMPS III
Armament:
- 32 cell Mk-41 VLS For SM-2, Tomahawk, ESSM
- 64 cell Mk-41 VLS Aft SM-2, Tomahawk, ASROC
- 1 X 127mm MK-45 DP Gun
- 1 or 2 x Phalanx 20mm CIWS
- 2 x 25mm Mk 38 Mod 2 autocannons
- 6 x .50 cal MGs
- 6 X Mk-46 LW Torpedoes

What the Burke III should have been:

Jeff the 4 Arleigh Burkes deployed to Spain are they BMD?

asif iqbal said:

Jeff the 4 Arleigh Burkes deployed to Spain are they BMD?

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The Aegis destroyer USS Donald Cook, DDG-75, is the first of four to deploy and be forward based in Rota, Spain. She is already deployed, transiting over in February of this year. As it happens, she was the Arleigh Burke DDG buzzed 12 times by the SU-24 in the Black Sea a little while ago.

she definitely has BMD capability...and this capability was one of the big reasons for deploying these four destroyers.

When she was deployed Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel said this:

Chuck Hagel said:

An important posture enhancement is European missile defense in response to ballistic missile threats from Iran. The US is committed to deploying missile defense architecture there as a part of Phase 3 of the European Phased Adaptive Approach (EPAA).

Over the next two years, three additional Aegis-enabled missile defense-capable destroyers will join this effort to protect NATO countries on the European continent.

Despite fiscal constraints, the budget fully protects our investment in European missile defense.

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So yes...they will all be BMD.

Jeff,

A recent USNI report mentioned that not all Flight I and II will be upgraded to baseline 9 (aka ACB 12) due to sequestration and budget constraints. In effect, only 7 of these earlier flights will be upgraded to BMD 5 while the remaining will only be upgraded to BMD 4.1 from 3.6. The outcome of this is that 21 of these earlier vessels would not be able to simultaneously handle traditional air warfare and BMD and more importantly subject them to potential earlier obsolescence and targeted decommissioning.

Do you share these concerns?

Brumby

Brumby said:

The outcome of this is that 21 of these earlier vessels would not be able to simultaneously handle traditional air warfare and BMD and more importantly subject them to potential earlier obsolescence and targeted decommissioning.

Do you share these concerns?

Brumby

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I do not think that not being able to perform simultaneous normal AAW missions and BMD missions will result in them being subject to earlier obsolescence.

The US Navy, to my knowledge, has never planned to convert all AEGIS DDGs, either Blocks I, II, or IIa to do this.

If loaded with BDM shots, that decreases the number of normal AAW shots, ESSMs, and Tomahawks. They will convert enough to ensure that they can meet the CONUS and allies BMD needs, and leave the others to be able to be fully functional in the normal missions they were built for.