Last week, top Navy leaders told Congress they no longer plan to extend the service lives of all DDG-51 Aegis-class destroyers to reach 355 ships. “Service life extensions can be targeted, physical changes to specific hulls to gain a few more years, or a class-wide extension based on engineering analysis,” Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Research, Development and Acquisition James Geurts and Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Warfighting Requirements and Capabilities (OPNAV N9) Vice Adm. James Kilby told…
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