Basilone-class Guided-Missile Destroyer
Initially intended as four more Kidd-class destroyers, the US Navy needed a solution quickly as the Soviet Navy began deploying hypersonic missiles. The addition of the MK41 VLS was a much-needed upgrade, but as the United States began the development of its own hypersonic anti-ship missile, the now dubbed Basilone-class ships would be the first to receive the RGM-110B Tempest. The Tempest missiles are squeezed inside the ABL on the Port and Starboard sides of the ship.
Ships:
Basilone DDG-824
Joseph P. Kennedy DDG-850
Keppler DDG-765
Norris DDG-859
