HII’s Ingalls Shipbuilding division has successfully undocked the USS Zumwalt (DDG 1000), marking a crucial step in the destroyer’s modernization program that includes the Navy’s first integration of advanced hypersonic…
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US Navy Fails Hypersonic Missile Test
The United State Navy’s most expensive surface ships, the three destroyers of the USS Zumwalt class, has been plagued with failures. The ship’s Advanced Gun System did not work as…
U.S. Navy Commissions Second Zumwalt-Class Destroyer, USS Michael Monsoor
The U.S. Navy has commissioned its second of three Zumwalt-class destroyers, named USS Michael Monsoor (DDG 1001), at Naval Air Station North Island, California. Zumwalt-class destroyers are the most lethal and technologically-advanced destroyers ever constructed, with greater stealth, size, power...
U.S. Navy’s Third and Final Zumwalt Destroyer Launched at Bath Iron Works
The third and final vessel in the U.S. Navy Zumwalt-class stealth destroyer program was launched Sunday at the General Dyanamics Bath Iron Works shipyard in Bath, Maine. Like the two other ships in the class, the launching of the future USS Lyndon B. Johnson (DDG 1002) was actually a multi-day...