U.S. Will Deploy Its Latest-Generation Modern Destroyer to Rota Base

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The United States will deploy at the naval base of Rota (Cadiz) a state-of-the-art destroyer, of the Arleigh Burke Flight III class, more advanced than the five deployed so far, according to Spanish and American sources. Last October, the fifth missile destroyer, the USS Oscar Austin, the first vessel in the Arleigh Burke Flight IIA series, arrived at the Gaditan base, but there is still no concrete date for the arrival of the sixth, which shoul…