A U.S. Navy stealth ship is getting a major upgrade: USS Zumwalt is currently being fitted with an experimental hypersonic weapon system called Conventional Prompt Strike. Hypersonic weapons are ...

Once the work is complete, the USS Zumwalt (and its sister ships) will be capable of performing fast, precision strikes from a distance. Work began on the upgrade in August of 2023 and is ...

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 ...

(Janes/Michael Fabey) The programme to put hypersonic missile capability on guided-missile destroyer USS Zumwalt (DDG 1000) is on track, according to Scott Spence, Raytheon vice-president of Naval ...

Yet, instead of waiting to see how the vessel and its new launchers perform, the U.S. Navy also announced that the USS Lyndon B. Johnson (DDG-1002), the third and final vessel of the Zumwalt class ...

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.

It appears that the Navy intends to force the Zumwalt through the development process and then sort the rest out later. "We determined that the best future for that ship is to get it out there ...

New destroyers are still being developed after the failure of the Zumwalt program ... 161.15 million to upgrade the cruiser after entering the modernization program in 2018, the Navy decided ...

The shape and design of the U.S. Navy's newest destroyer, the USS Zumwalt, make the ship 50 times harder to detect compared to other destroyers. Produced by Zach Wasser. Video courtesy of the U.S ...