In this video we explore why over 90% of the Zumwalt class destroyers were cancelled. We bet you know why right off the bat, but we dig deeper and explore what led to the cost overruns.

USS Zumwalt (DDG … Sunday, June 29 ... Although the Navy shelved its electromagnetic rail gun several years ago, that technology was also considered for the Zumwalts, ...

The US Navy is converting Zumwalt-class stealth destroyers into hypersonic missile shooters. The expensive Zumwalt class has struggled to find a suitable mission and weapons. The upgrade is part ...

The US Navy is converting Zumwalt-class stealth destroyers into hypersonic missile shooters. The expensive Zumwalt class has struggled to find a suitable mission and weapons. The upgrade is part ...

Last year, a Japanese ship performed the first-ever railgun test at sea, a success that led the Ministry of Defense to request 23.8 billion yen (about $160 million) for railgun R&D in its 2024 budget.

The USS Zumwalt and the Zumwalt class are named after Adm. Elmo Russell Zumwalt Jr. He has the distinction of being the youngest admiral ever promoted in the U.S. Navy at the age of 44 and later ...

The railgun will now join the ranks of other costly, ... Only the Navy’s three-ship Zumwalt class destroyers reportedly were capable of supplying the electricity needed to operate the gun.

BATH, Maine (AP) — The U.S. Navy pulled the plug, for now, on a futuristic weapon that fires projectiles at up to seven times the speed of sound using electricity.

The Navy is shifting away from its electromagnetic railgun after more than 10 years of trying to create a weapon that uses electricity to fire projectiles at up to seven times the speed of sound,&n… ...

The Navy spent more than a decade developing the electromagnetic railgun and once considered putting them on the stealthy new Zumwalt-class destroyers built at Maine’s […] BATH, Maine ...

BATH, Maine (AP) - The U.S. Navy pulled the plug, for now, on a futuristic weapon that fires projectiles at up to seven times the speed of sound using electricity. The Navy spent more than a ...