21st Century Complete Guide to U.S. Navy Destroyers - Arleigh Burke Class Warships - plus Dock Landing and Mine Countermeasures Ships, Comprehensive Information and Photo Galleries (CD-ROM)

This up-to-date electronic book on CD-ROM has comprehensive coverage of the U.S. Navy's fleet of Arleigh Burke-class destroyers, with extensive photo galleries. In addition, it has complete coverage of Dock Landing Ships and Mine Countermeasures Ships. This extraordinary, encyclopedic collection contains more than 16,000 pages reproduced in Adobe Acrobat PDF files. DESTROYERS - From the first U.S. destroyer commissioned in 1902 to the famous ships of World War II to the Spruance-class to the Arleigh Burke-class, the U.S. Navy's destroyers have been evolving. And that evolution continues into the 21st century with the coming of the DD(X). These fast warships provide multi-mission offensive and defensive capabilities, and can operate independently or as part of carrier battle groups, surface action groups, amphibious ready groups, and underway replenishment groups. Destroyers and guided missile destroyers operate in support of carrier battle groups, surface action groups, amphibious groups and replenishment groups. Destroyers primarily perform anti-submarine warfare duty while guided missile destroyers are multi-mission [Anti-Air Warfare (AAW), Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW), and Anti-Surface Warfare (ASUW)] surface combatants. The addition of the Mk-41 Vertical Launch System or Tomahawk Armored Box Launchers (ABLs) to many Spruance-class destroyers has greatly expanded the role of the destroyer in strike warfare. Technological advances have improved the capability of modern destroyers culminating in the Arleigh Burke (DDG 51) class. DOCK LANDING SHIPS (LSD) - Dock Landing Ships support amphibious operations including landings via Landing Craft Air Cushion (LCAC), conventional landing craft and helicopters, onto hostile shores. These ships transport and launch amphibious craft and vehicles with their crews and embarked personnel in amphibious assault operations. LSD 41 was designed specifically to operate LCAC vessels. It has the largest capacity for these landing cr