The US Navy’s troubled Zumwalt-class destroyers are being revitalized with the integration of Conventional Prompt Strike (CPS ...

The U.S. Navy’s Zumwalt destroyer, the most technologically advanced warship ever built and the first of its eponymous class, was set to be christened October 19, but then politics intervened.

What You Need to Know: The U.S. Navy’s Zumwalt-class destroyer program, once hailed as the future of naval warfare, has been ...

The Navy’s most technologically-advanced destroyer, the USS Zumwalt sails towards her new homeport in San Diego. Petty Officer 1st Class Ace Rheaume/U.S. Navy ...

Controversial in cost, armament, and purpose, the USS Zumwalt-class destroyers are now being repurposed by the U.S. Navy into assassins of the sea.

"This destroyer, like the others in our fleet, is capable of projecting power, no doubt," Mabus said, in the statement. "The Zumwalt-class is much larger than today's destroyers with a ...

The Zumwalt-class destroyers were designed to fight in littoral waters, carrying out land-attack and naval-fire support missions. Their primary weapon was to be the Advanced Gun System, consisting ...

The Zumwalt-class stealth destroyers are considered the most advanced surface warships in the world, equipped with innovative naval technology.. Named after Adm. Elmo R. Zumwalt Jr., the youngest ...

Guided-missile destroyer USS Zumwalt (DDG-1000) left San Diego on Friday for its first “operational underway” that will include a trip up the West Coast to a naval base in Canada.

THE zumwalt-class ddg-1000 AT A GLANCE. THE LARGEST: The Zumwalt-class DDG-1000 ship is the largest destroyer ever built for the Navy, at 15,000 tons based on the weight of the water it displaces.

In January 2019, the Navy will commission its second hi-tech Zumwalt-class stealth destroyer, the USS Michael Monsoor.The third and last, USS Lyndon B. Johnson was launched this December 2018 and ...

The next-generation Zumwalt destroyers – which Congress started funding in 2006 – are projected to cost a combined $23.5 billion after research, development and construction.