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USS Porter

A Tomahawk Land Attack Missile is launched from the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Stethem (DDG 63) during Valiant Shield 2016.

Here’s How The Navy’s Tomahawk Missiles Are Supposed To Work

Shawn VanDiver

The guided missile destroyer USS Porter (DDG 78) conducts an anchoring detail evolution. Porter, forward-deployed to Rota, Spain, is conducting naval operations in the U.S. 6th Fleet area of operations in support of U.S. national security interests in Europe.

Russian Jets Repeatedly Buzzed A US Destroyer in The Black Sea

Corey Dickstein, Stars and Stripes