Destroyer Forged in Steel

The Arleigh Burke destroyer is Americas most modern surface warship This sleek 500foot long vessel bristles with stateoftheart weapons and technology Armed with longrange cruise missiles 5inch main guns torpedoes and highspeed cannons this extremely fast and stealthy warship will be the mainstay of the Navys forward projection of force well into the 21st century At the Bath Iron Works in Maine follow the construction of one of these impressive vessels from its keel laying to its initial slide into the Kennebec River Written by The Discovery Channel