For those who enjoy taking their work to a higher level of detail, the Panda kit presents some shortcomings, notably in the included photo etch (a bit thick, no ladders) and in the decals.  Though it may be hard to tell (after my scanner, the web, the web site's compression software, and your monitor's color adjustments), the Panda decals on my sample at least are more pinkish where they should be red, and a bit heavy on the lines of the warning circles and the "E" marks.  The "E" marks are also printed too close to primary colored red, blue and yellow to my eye.  Panda did not include the warning circles for the helo deck.

An alternative is the 1/350 JAG Modern USN Ship Decals.  As you can see from the scans, the line weight is much finer and to my eye will look much less toy-like on the finished ship.  The "E" marks come in more, and more accurate, colors, including the white with black shadowed style.  JAG also includes a nice selection of fruit salad badges for the bridge, decals which Panda left out.  Panda also left off the helo deck warning markings, which JAG does include.  You also get way more decals than needed to complete the Burke, so you can also spruce up that DML Sprucan and other 1/350 kits rumored to be coming soon out of China.

The JAG decal sheet is a full 8.5 x 11 (roughly A4) in size and like most aftermarket decals, is fully overcoated.  This means you will need to fully cut out each decal from the carrier paper.  The decals come off the paper easily in warm water just like kit decals, and are quite thin.  I used Gunze's Mr. Mark Softener on the decals over Tamiya Acrylics and there were no problems; the decals shrunk down nice and tight.  I've still got a lot of work to do on my Burke, but will upload some photos of the finished project when I'm done, with the JAG decals.

You can buy the decals direct from JAG, or Trident Hobbies offers them online