
	Where results make sense

Topic: Arleigh Burke class

Related Topics

working class

Spectral class

social class

Bathurst class corvette

her class

Ohio class submarines

class computer science

equivalence class

Oliver Hazard Perry class frigate

Bathurst class

Attack class patrol boat

In the News (Sat 6 Sep 08)

Gordon Brown

Derby County

Mike Huckabee

Lute Olson

Pearl Harbor

Sonia Gandhi

Ricky Hatton

Narendra Modi

Jesus Christ

Rudy Giuliani

	Destroyer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		At the end of the war the state of the art was represented by the British V and W class destroyer.
		Arleigh Burke is billed by her builders, the Bath Iron Works, as ton-for-ton the most powerful warship in history.
		Two classes of destroyers are currently in use by the US Navy: the Spruance class and the Arleigh Burke class.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Destroyer (1880 words)

	Kongo class destroyer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Kongo class destroyers are fourth generation destroyers and an improvement upon the U.S. Navy Arleigh Burke class (Flight I) which serve in the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) Escort Flotillas.
		The Kongo class vessels are being modified to serve in a theater missile defense role, with the primary intention of countering North Korean ballistic missiles.
		The class shares a name with the previous Japanese class of battlecruisers named after Kongo, all of which were lost during World War II.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kongo_class_destroyer (379 words)

	Destroyer article - Destroyer Arleigh Burke class destroyer naval warship Germany bomber destroyers - What-Means.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		In naval terminology, a destroyer is a fast and maneuverable yet long-endurance warship intended to escort larger vessels in a fleet or battle group and defend them against smaller, short-range attackers.
		Two classes of destroyers are currently in use by the US Navy: the Spruance-class and the Arleigh Burke-class.
		DD(X) is no longer called Zumwalt class, and is much larger than traditional destroyers, being nearly three thousand tons heavier than the Ticonderoga class cruiser.
	www.what-means.com /encyclopedia/Destroyer (865 words)

	Encyclopedia: Arleigh Burke class destroyer
		Admiral Burke was alive when the class leader was commissioned, and his words to the plank crew echo in the class's distinguished service to date: "This ship is built to fight; you'd better know how." Admiral is a word from the Arabic term Amir-al-bahr (Lord of the bay).
		Admiral Arleigh Burke in 1951 Arleigh Albert Burke (October 19, 1901 _ January 1, 1996), an Admiral of the United States Navy during World War II and the Korean War, was born far from the sea in Boulder, Colorado.
		USS Arleigh Burke (DDG-51), named for Admiral Arleigh Albert Burke USN (1901-1996), is the lead ship of the her class of guided missile destroyers.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Arleigh-Burke-class-destroyer (1799 words)

	Admiral Arleigh Burke
		The USS Cole, in the news recently as the target of a terrorist attack in Yemen, is an Arleigh Burke class destroyer.
		Admiral Arleigh A. Burke was born on Oct 19, 1901 on a farm on Baseline Road.
		The group’s first goal was to rename a city park in Burke’s honor and in January 1997, the former Thunderbird Park at the corner of Mohawk and Pawnee Drive was officially renamed Admiral Arleigh A. Burke Memorial Park.
	www.arleigh.com /pages/burke.html (779 words)

	The Arleigh Burke: Linchpin of the Navy
		Designed for survivability, the Burke class incorporates all-steel construction and many damage control features that are a direct result of lessons learned during the 1981 Falkland Islands War, and from the May 1987 accidental attack on the USS Stark (FFG 31)in the Persian Gulf.
		Landay said Arleigh Burke class destroyers are a tremendous asset to the U.S. Navy and an important tool of our national security policy.
		Admiral Burke is remembered for being "relentless in combat" and" revered by his crew." These are the same qualities that symbolize the Arleigh Burke class guided missile destroyer.
	www.fas.org /man/dod-101/sys/ship/docs/ArleighB.htm (1693 words)

	shipinfo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Completion of the Arleigh Burke destroyer program, along with the earlier procurement of Ticonderoga-class cruisers, will allow the Navy to achieve a force of 84 Aegis-capable surface combatants by fiscal year 2010.
		The Navy's Arleigh Burke (DDG 51) Class Industrial Base Study of 1993 stated that procurement of three destroyers per year could only sustain the destroyer industrial base if some additional, non-DDG 51 work, were available to each shipbuilder.
		Class changes in production Flight IIA critical to littoral war fighting effectiveness include the incorporation of embarked helicopters (SH-60R), an organic mine hunting capability and the introduction of area theater ballistic missile defense capability to protect near coastal air-fields and seaports essential to the flow of forces into theater in time of conflict.
	www.chafee.navy.mil /shipinfo.html (4064 words)

	Destroyer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		This required them to have the speed and range of the battleships, so destroyers were often much larger than the boats they were designed to counter.
		The torpedo boat destroyer later on took over the role of the smaller torpedo boats, performing torpedo attacks on fleets, such as the devastating Japanese attack on the Russian fleet in Port Arthur at the opening of the Russo-Japanese war in 1904, and attacks in the Pacific theatre of World War II.
		The destroyers (as well as frigates) are, as always, the workhorses of the fleet, the former being optimised for air defence and the latter for surface and subsurface warfare.
	www.northmiami.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Destroyer (1187 words)

	burkehead
		Burke class destroyers, named after the US Navy’s most famous destroyer commander, Arleigh "31 knot" Burke, are the culmination of U.S. destroyer development.
		Designed around the state-of-the-art Aegis phased array system also used in Ticonderoga class cruisers, Burke class destroyers are unquestionably the most futuristic appearing warships afloat.
		First entering service in 1991, there are now 21 commissioned Arleigh Burke class destroyers and 10 under construction.
	www.steelnavy.com /burkehea.htm (314 words)

	USS Arleigh Burke (DDG 51)
		USS ARLEIGH BURKE was the first U.S. Navy ship designed to incorporate shaping techniques to reduce radar cross-section to reduce their detectability and likelihood of being targeted by enemy weapons and sensors.
		Admiral Burke's Destroyer Squadron 23, represented by the border of 23 ovals, was the only United States Destroyer Squadron awarded a Presidential Unit Citation, signified by the canton of blue, yellow, and red.
		In April 2001, USS ARLEIGH BURKE was attached to the USS HARRY S. Battle Group, deployed to the Persian Gulf in support of Operation Southern Watch, it returned to Norfolk, Va., in late May.
	navysite.de /dd/ddg51.htm (717 words)

	Naval Technology - Arleigh Burke Class (Aegis) - Guided Missile Destroyers
		The Arleigh Burke class destroyers are equipped with the Aegis Combat System which integrates the ship's sensors and weapons systems to engage anti-ship missile threats.
		Arleigh Burke vessels will be fitted with the Evolved Seasparrow Missile (ESSM), being developed by Raytheon.
		The Arleigh Burke destroyers are armed with 56 Tomahawk cruise missiles.
	www.naval-technology.com /projects/burke (1433 words)

	DDG-51 ARLEIGH BURKE-class - Navy Ships
		The Navy's Arleigh Burke (DDG 51) Class Industrial Base Study of 1993 stated that procurement of three destroyers per year could only sustain the destroyer industrial base if some additional, non-DDG 51 work, were available to each sipbuilder.
		Class changes in production Flight IIA critical to littoral warfighting effectiveness include the incorporation of embarked helicopters (SH-60R), an organic minehunting capability and the introduction of area theater ballistic missile defense capability to protect near coastal air-fields and seaports essential to the flow of forces into theater in time of conflict.
		The Arleigh Burke: Linchpin of the Navy Asia-Pacific Defense FORUM Fall 1998 -- Boasting more firepower per ton than any other class of ship in the world, Arleigh Burke destroyers represent the futureof the U.S. Navy.
	www.fas.org /man/dod-101/sys/ship/ddg-51.htm (8886 words)

	U.S. Naval Institute Resources: Arleigh Burke-Class Guided Missile Destroyer - DDG (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		DDG 54 became the first of the class to be based overseas, at Yokosuka, Japan, on 30-9-96, followed by DDG 56 on 30-6-97.
		The SLQ-32(V)2 passive-only EW suite in the Flight I units of the class has been upgraded to SLQ-32(V)5 through the addition of "Sidekick" jammers; later units were completed with Sidekick, while the Flight II ships are receiving the integrated SLQ-32(V)3 intercept and jamming array.
		Correction posted 03/24/04: The Arleigh Burkes use the AN/SPS-67(V)3, the (V)4 was a design in progress at DRS Technologies but got cancelled due to the Navy choosing the AN/SPS-73(V)12 system.
	www.usni.org /arleighburkeddg.htm (1387 words)

	Articles - Arleigh Burke class destroyer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		The Arleigh Burke class are among the largest destroyers ever built (larger is the Ticonderoga class of cruisers, which were constructed as destroyers and subsequently redesignated as cruisers), and certainly among the most powerful.
		One Arleigh Burke class ship has been damaged by enemy action: Cole was damaged by a powerful improvised explosive device delivered by a suicide boat in October 2000 in Aden, Yemen (see USS Cole bombing).
		In September 2005, the Australian Government decided upon using the Arleigh Burke design for their new Sea 4000 project in which three new destroyers are to be built for the Royal Australian Navy.
	www.lastring.com /articles/Arleigh_Burke_class_destroyer?mySession=40a59cb346d0bbd8df38de21e2b7a6ee (564 words)

	ARLEIGH BURKE Class
		While only 60 feet longer than ST. JOHN'S, the BURKE class is rather beamier than the HALIFAX class, has a higher bow and superstructure, and displaces about three thousand tons more.
		Along with the forward launcher, this gives the BURKE class the ability to carry up to 90 missiles (96 if the strikedown crane is omitted, as will be done in the Flight IIA ships).
		Flights I and II of the BURKE class can service and refuel a helicopter, but have no hangar to carry one at sea.
	www.hazegray.org /features/nato/us/burke (730 words)

	Navy.com : Explore the Navy: Cruisers and Destroyers: Vessels (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Navy surface warfare ships are of four general classes — Ticonderoga-class cruiser (CG), Arleigh Burke-class destroyer (DDG), Spruance-class destroyer (DD) and Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigate (FFG).
		Touted as the most powerful combatant ever put to sea, the Arleigh Burke-class destroyer was named after the Navy’s most famous destroyer-squadron combat commander and three time Chief of Naval Operations.
		Arleigh Burke-class warfare capabilities include the MK41 Vertical Launch System (VLS), anti-submarine capabilities, advanced anti-air warfare missiles and the long-range and accurate Tomahawk® cruise missiles.
	www.navy.com /cruisers/vessels (432 words)

	Wavelengths: Arleigh Burke Class Marks Milestone with Completion of 40th Combat Systems Ship Qualification Trial (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		During the CSSQT conducted on USS Arleigh Burke (DDG 51), CNO Project 801-DT-IIIA was integrated with CSSQT to form a total SQT.
		On previous ship classes, NAVSEA Warfare Center Philadelphia technical codes had a smaller role in CSSQT support, providing grooming of support systems such as chilled water, electronic cooling water, and vertical launch system support (deluge, magazine sprinkling, ventilation and blow out systems).
		Familiarization classes of the chilled water system are also conducted for ship’s personnel, which include tours of the ship to point out various valves.
	www.dt.navy.mil /wavelengths/archives/000060.html (966 words)

	Pit Road USS Porter Arleigh Burke Class DDG
		The USS Porter is the last of the Arleigh Burke Flight II destroyers.
		The Flight II variant of the Burke class is externally similar to the Flight I. The Flight II has a few extra electronic domes and a vertical TACAN antenna at the mast head.
		If you are interested in building a Burke class destroyer and are undecided as to which one to build, this may be the kit for you.
	www.steelnavy.com /PorterDDG.htm (470 words)

	Mass High Tech
		The Arleigh Burke Class destroyers are 'built to fight,' and this equipment stands up to that legacy with no doubt," said Dan Martin, IDS vice president of Surveillance and Sensor Systems at Raytheon, in a statement.
		The Arleigh Burke destroyers are built primarily by Bath Iron Works in Bath, Maine, a General Dynamics subsidiary.
		Ingalls Shipworks in Mississippi supplies the rest of the Arleigh Burke destroyers to the Navy.
	www.masshightech.com /displayarticledetail.asp?Art_ID=67707 (264 words)

	Navy League of the United States - Citizens in Support of the Sea Services
		Haze gray with familiar topside lines, the Pinckney looks strikingly similar to other Arleigh Burkes on the outside, but buried inside its steel skin are powerful new technologies that were not even in development, or, in some cases, even contemplated, when Aegis ships joined the fight in Desert Storm.
		The Pinckney is the first Arleigh Burke-class destroyer outfitted with the latest version of the Aegis Weapon System, Baseline 7 Phase I, which is based solely on commercial processors.
		Pinckney also is the first of the class to have a comprehensive computing network architecture based on COTS technology, which increases ship systems’ capability and is a major step toward open architecture.
	www.navyleague.org /sea_power/may_04_32.php (1332 words)

	Taiwan Communique no. 91
		The decision to postpone the sale of four Arleigh Burke class destroyers outfitted with Aegis, and to offer Taiwan the PAVE PAWS system instead is peculiar.
		The Arleigh Burke/AEGIS system is an advanced weapon system that could help Taiwan defend itself against the increasing array of short-range missiles deployed along the Chinese coast facing Taiwan.
		To defend against these missiles, the Arleigh Burke destroyers have a AN/SPY-1 multifunction radar capable of monitoring incoming missiles and aircraft.
	www.taiwandc.org /twcom/91-no2.htm (831 words)

	US Navy Commissions New Destroyer [Free Republic]
		The USS Oscar Austin is the 29th of 58 congressionally authorized Arleigh Burke class destroyers to be built.
		Equipped with the Navy’s most modern systems, the ship is one of a class considered to be the most lethal ever put to sea.
		It is also the first Arleigh Burke class ship with Flight IIA, a feature encompassing aircraft handling and support facilities that will incorporate dual helicopter hangars to port and starboard, the Pentagon said.
	www.freerepublic.com /forum/a39a77b467aff.htm (1282 words)

	US NAVY - GUIDED MISSILE DESTROYERS
		Mitscher DL 2 / DDG 35 - class
		Guided missile destroyers are fast warships that help safeguard larger ships by operating in support of carrier battle groups, surface action groups, amphibious groups and replenishment groups.
		Guided missile destroyers are multi-mission surface combatants which are also able to provide naval gun fire support.
	navysite.de /ddg.htm (69 words)

	The Arleigh Burke Class of Destroyers -- 10/12/2000
		Background: Technological advances have improved the capability of modern destroyers culminating in the Arleigh Burke (DDG 51) class.
		The Spruance class destroyers, the first large U.S. Navy warships to employ gas turbine engines as their main propulsion system, are undergoing extensive modernizing.
		Spruance class destroyers are expected to remain a major part of the Navy's surface combatant force into the 21st century.
	www.cnsnews.com /ViewPrint.asp?Page=\Pentagon\archive\200010\PEN20001012b.html (350 words)

	Gallery :: Naval Sea Systems Command (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		CDR Mark Montgomery, prospective commanding officer of PCU McCampbell (DDG 85) accepts the Arleigh Burke destroyer as "in service-special" from CAPT John Ingram, Supervisor of Shipbuilding, Bath, Maine.
		The LEWIS and CLARK (T-AKE 1) Class is the next class of Combat Logistics Force (CLF) underway replenishment vessels to be constructed for the US Navy.
		T-AKE 1 Class ships will replace the existing fifteen T-AE 26 Class (ammunition), T-AFS 1 and 8 Classes (combat stores) and, when operating in concert with a T-AO 187 Class (oiler), the T-AKE will replace AOE 1 Class ships (fast combat support).
	www.hspig.org /v-web/gallery/album01?page=9 (617 words)

	ModelWarships reveiw
		The Burke Class represents the first new Destroyer design since the Spruance class.
		This kit can be used to build most of the early Burke class ships.
		The hull is molded in the usual Pitroad style with a separate bow deck insert and a bottom waterline insert.
	www.modelwarships.com /reviews/ships/ddg/ddg-54/pr-ddg-54.html (480 words)

	World Navies Today: US Navy Aircraft Carriers & Surface Combatants
		The Nimitz class is considered the finest carrier design ever; the ships will be in production for over 30 years, and the last will be in service up to 80 years after the first was completed.
		CVN 77, the final ship of this class, will be a "transition" ship to the new CVNX design, and will differ considerably from the other ships of the class.
		They were designed with "lessons learned" from previous classes, and are among the finest surface combatants in the world.
	www.hazegray.org /worldnav/usa/surface.htm (4491 words)

	Stars & Stripes
		It subsequently was renamed the Broadwater, and in mid-October 1941, while escorting a convoy to the south of Iceland, the HMS Broadwater was torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine.
		The second time the name was used, the Navy named its 1,140-ton Evarts class destroyer in honor of Ensign Newton Henry Mason, a pilot killed in action during the Battle of Coral Sea in May 1942.
		The Mason is the 37th ship of the 62 Arleigh Burke class of destroyers that Congress has approved.
	www.estripes.com /article.asp?section=104&article=14801 (534 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)