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Navy Canceling DDG-51 Class Extension Due To Funding, May Walk Back

Navy Canceling DDG-51 Class Extension Due To Funding, May Walk Back
The USS Howard (DDG-83) Arleigh Burke-class destroyer returns to Naval Base San Diego after a seven-month deployment to the Western Pacific Ocean in 2014. (Photo: U.S. Navy)

The Navy may reverse itself again and re-institute a class-wide service life extension of DDG-51 Arleigh Burke-class destroyers if it gets the funding, the Navy’s top procurement official told a congressional panel Thursday. In written testimony to a Senate Armed Services Seapower subcommittee hearing last week, Navy officials said after evaluating the best balance between costs and capability, it was removing a plan dating back to 2018 to institute service life extensions on the entire Arleigh Burke-class DDG-51 destroyers to…

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