USS Zumwalt

Builder’s sea trials validate sweeping upgrades that position the Navy’s most unconventional destroyer for a new strike mission

USS Zumwalt gears up to test hypersonic missiles, transforming stealth tech into a game-changing strike platform for global threats.

The US Navy’s Zumwalt-class destroyers are gearing up for hypersonic dominance, racing to counter China’s growing missile threat near Taiwan.

Zumwalt destroyer gets hypersonic firepower! New missiles hit 1,724 miles at Mach 5+—stealthy, lethal, and redefining naval dominance.

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The USS Zumwalt’s hypersonic upgrade heralds a new era in naval dominance, redefining power with speed and precision.

The USS Zumwalt undergoes radical transformation, integrating hypersonic missiles to redefine modern naval warfare capabilities.

The USS Zumwalt’s design was supposed to be part of the 32 ships the Navy requested from Congress with a $46 billion dollar price tag. In 1999, the estimated cost for the stealth destroyer was estimated at $1.34 billion per ship but has actually cost the Navy $7 billion to make. Since the project is so far past their initial […]

The US Navy’s most technologically advanced warship broke down while transiting through the Panama Canal, the second setback for the $4 billion ship in the last two months. The propulsion system of the USS Zumwalt (DDG-1000) had problems while passing through the canal and had to be towed in to the former naval station Rodman in […]

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The Navy’s largest and costliest destroyer was sent out to sea Monday for final trials before its delivery to the military.  The future USS Zumwalt features an angled hull that looks like a hybrid of something out of Soviet Russia and a James Bond movie. Staff from Bath Iron Works, the Maine shipyard that built […]