The U.S. Navy Wants To Develop And Build A New Generation Of Destroyers

The Arleigh Burke-class destroyer Stout transits through the Strait of Hormuz in May. The Navy will use the Burke-class as a model for how it builds a new class of large surface combatant. (Cpl. Gary Jayne III/U.S. Marine Corps) 

Defense News: US Navy eyes new design for next-generation destroyer 

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Navy is looking to build a new generation of destroyers from a clean-sheet design, following the model of one of its most successful ship classes, the Arleigh Burke-class DDG, the service’s top officer said Tuesday. 

The idea, colloquially referred to in-house as DDG Next, is to build a new hull smaller than the nearly 16,000-ton Zumwalt-class destroyer but still big enough to accommodate a larger missile magazine, Adm. Michael Gilday told a virtual audience at Defense One’s State of the Navy event. 

“I don’t want to build a monstrosity. But I need deeper magazines on ships than I have right now,” the chief of naval operations said. “I’m limited with respect to DDG Flight IIIs in terms of what additional stuff we could put on those ships. … So the idea is to come up with the next destroyer, and that would be a new hull. The idea would be to put existing technologies on that hull and update and modernize those capabilities over time.” 

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WNU Editor: The US Navy has a lot of plans for the future. The problem that I see is this .... The Pentagon Wants to Supersize the Navy to 500+ Ships. Good Luck Paying for That. (Popular Mechanics). And if there is a Biden administration in 2021 at the White House, I doubt very much that funds will be allocated for this next-generation destroyer.

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