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Arleigh Burke Class Destroyer
-Guided Missile Destroyer-



ORIGIN(REAL WORLD):
United States of America

GAMES FEATURED IN:
Ace Combat 6 Fires of Liberation
Ace Combat X: Skies of Deception (cutscene only)

OPERATORS:
Estovakian Navy
Leasath Navy

OVERVIEW:

The Arleigh Burke class are among the most powerful destroyers ever built in the United States. Only the Spruance class destroyers were larger (563 feet long). The Burke class destroyers are more heavily armed than previous guided-missile destroyers. However it is important to remember that the mission of the Burke class is significantly different than the Spruance class. The larger Ticonderoga class ships were constructed on Spruance class hull-forms, but are designated as cruisers due to their radically different mission and weapons systems.

The Arleigh Burke's designers incorporated lessons learned from the Ticonderoga class guided-missile cruisers. The Ticonderoga class cruisers were supposedly becoming too expensive to continue building, and too difficult to upgrade. Visually, the angled rather than traditional vertical surfaces and the tripod mainmast of the Arleigh Burke design are part of "stealth" technologies, which improve the ship's ability to evade and/or destroy anti-ship cruise missiles.

SOURCES:
Ace Combat 6: Fires of Liberation (the game itself)
Globalsecurity

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