The Zumwalt class are finally being equipped with workable artillery. Both of the Zumwalts’ two gun turrets were removed and replaced by twenty-four 2.2 meter launch tubes for firing ...

USS Zumwalt (DDG 1000) recently completed modifications to remove her main guns and replace them with a hypersonic missile capability. The work to have her guns removed to make space for new ...

A U.S. Navy stealth ship is getting a major upgrade: USS Zumwalt is currently being ... carrying three Conventional Prompt Strike missiles. When firing at long range, missiles traveling at ...

The United States has been attempting to develop a next-generation guided missile destroyer for over 30 years. Despite the passage of time and the expenditure of billions of dollars, successive ...

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 US Navy's newest and biggest toy is the imposing Zumwalt-class guided-missile destroyer, a svelte, stealthy entry designed to complement the Navy's large fleet of Arleigh Burke-class DDGs.

The US Navy will soon take ownership of the US Zumwalt. The $4.4 billion futuristic-missile destroyer will be commissioned October 2016. Produced by Emmanuel Ocbazghi Follow BI Video: On Twitter ...

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 ...

Service: USN Armament: Mk57 vertical launch system; Tomahawk missiles ... any lead surface combatant in history. The Navy intends to procure three Zumwalt Class Destroyers which are named in ...

Photo courtesy Edward Lundquist HII’s Ingalls Shipbuilding division successfully undocked USS Zumwalt (DDG 1000), the lead ship of the U.S. Navy’s Zumwalt-class of guided missile destroyers on ...