SASC Wants Navy to Develop New DDG(X) Destroyer in Tandem with Trump Battleship

Senate authorizers want the Navy to continue pursuing the next-generation destroyer, in addition to the new Trump-class battleship, USNI News has learned. The Senate Armed Services Committee thinks the Navy must keep developing DDG(X) as planned to follow the Arleigh Burke-class Flight III destroyers, according to the explanatory report accompanying the panel’s draft of the Fiscal Year 2027 defense policy bill. The report language says the Navy needs DDG(X) so it has a platform to succeed the Flight I Arleigh Burke destroyers when they start leaving the fleet in the 2030s. “Initial estimates of the unit cost of the BBG(X)