The guided-missile destroyer named the USS Zumwalt reached Ingalls Shipbuilding in Mississippi last week to be upgraded with advanced hypersonic weapons.
The 16,000-ton warship will be outfitted with the Conventional Prompt Strike (abbreviated CPS) weapon system as part of a modernization procedure that will last two years, per USNI News, citing the US Navy.
Deployment of this upgraded destroyer is likely to commence in 2025.
The upgrade will experience the vessel’s...