What has been described as the most transformational warship in the U.S. Navy has been transformed again. USS Zumwalt (DDG ...
USS Zumwalt (DDG-1000). The aforementioned 155mm gun mount has been removed and replaced with the launcher tubes. Work will ...
The Navy’s Zumwalt-class destroyer program manager this week said the first ship to get the new hypersonic missile system ...
The following post has been updated with details on USS Michael Monsoor (DDG-1001). ARLINGTON, Va. — The first at-sea U.S.
The two 155 mm guns of the Advanced Gun System on the Zumwalt, intended to strike targets farther than 80 miles away. But it's are ridiculously expensive to fire, as a single Long Range Land ...
Photos showed the Zumwalt's main deck gun mounts were removed ... contract to integrate the hypersonic weapon system aboard USS Zumwalt. The Congressional Budget Office also estimated that ...
Newly released pictures offer the first real look at the four new large launch tubes for firing Intermediate-Range ...
The U.S. Navy is gearing up to test its first at-sea platform equipped with the Pentagon’s hypersonic missile system, with the USS Zumwalt set for trials by the end of this year. Clint Lawler. The ...
The USS Zumwalt is at a Mississippi shipyard where workers have installed missile tubes that replace twin turrets from a gun system that was never activated because it was too expensive.
The gun barrels are stowed when not in use to ... perhaps characterizing it as a ‘destroyer on steroids.’” “USS Zumwalt is the Navy’s battlewagon of the 21st century,” Zumwalt said.
From longer-range anti-surface and strike capabilities to increased survivability and efficiency, the next-generation destroyer will hopefully be more successful than the Zumwalts when in service.