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Flight IIA vessels introduced expanded aviation facilities capable of supporting two MH-60R Seahawk helicopters, thereby extending the destroyer’s anti-submarine warfare and maritime strike reach well beyond the ship’s own sensor horizon.

Later vessels within the class incorporate vertical launch systems containing up to ninety-six missile cells capable of deploying a mixture of Standard Missile interceptors, Tomahawk land-attack cruise missiles, and anti-submarine rocket systems, creating a flexible weapons architecture suited to multiple operational scenarios.

The most advanced Flight III destroyers feature the AN/SPY-6(V)1 active electronically scanned array radar, which is reportedly thirty times more sensitive than earlier radar systems and dramatically enhances the ship’s ability to detect low-observable aerial threats and track ballistic missiles during complex combat engagements.