The Navy is looking for a three-year overlap between the start of construction on its next-generation guided-missile destroyer DDG(X) and its current crop of Flight III Arleigh Burke DDGs, the director of Navy surface warfare told US Naval Institute News on Wednesday.
Set to start construction in Fiscal Year 2032, the first DDG(X) will feature the combat systems, sensors and weapons of the current Flight IIIs fit inside a new hull with the space, weight power and cooling that can be expanded to include new weapon systems and sensors, Rear Adm. Fred Pyle said.
