Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen (left) steadies Paul H. Nitze as he looks at a model of an Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer at a Pentagon press conference on Jan. 10, 2001. Secretary of the Navy Richard Danzig announced that a similar destroyer will be named in honor of Nitze, a defense policy and arms control expert. The USS Nitze (DDG-94), which is due to join the fleet in 2004, is a multi-mission ship equipped with the Navy's AEGIS combat weapons system, which combines space-age communications, radar and weapons technologies into a single platform for maximum flexibility. The ship will be capable of firing surface-to-air missiles and Tomahawk cruise missiles as well as torpedoes and is equipped with a five-inch gun. The ship will also carry dual embarked SH-60 helicopters.