The U.S. Navy's Ashley Burke-class destroyers already sport a number of weapon systems for point defense, but now it's adding another to its arsenal.

As of Thursday, the USS Spruance has been deployed for 342 days, the longest for a destroyer since the Second World War.

It has long been earmarked that the Type 45 destroyers will be replaced similar ships, but that plan has been shelved The Royal Navy will procure at least six so-called “common combat vessels” (CCVs) ...