A US Navy destroyer operating in the Red Sea last year used its five-inch deck gun to shoot a Houthi drone out of the sky, a top commander revealed this week. The American destroyer, USS Stockdale, ...
There’s a lot of high-fives when you shoot something down with a gun, kind of World War II-style.” Since Hamas waged its October 7, 2023, massacre against Israel, Iran’s regional proxy groups have ...
The first destroyers were armed with torpedoes and guns of varying ... with the Aegis anti-aircraft system," Navy Newsstand reported in 2005, "making it comparable to the destroyer [USS Mason ...
The U.S. Navy also sought to equip the Zumwalt-class destroyers with the 155mm Advanced Gun System, which proved to be a failure due to the high cost of the ammunition. Currently, the service’s ...
The Zumwalt-class destroyer, the largest and most advanced ... naval gunfire support missions with secondary anti-ship and anti-aircraft mission capabilities. The Navy saw the ship operating ...
Service: USN Armament: Standard Missile (SM-2MR); Vertical Launch ASROC missiles; Tomahawk; 6x MK-46 torpedoes; Close In Weapon System; 5-inch Mk45 Gun ... The destroyer's armament has greatly ...