The unique profile of the U.S. Navy's Zumwalt-class destroyers helps to reduce their radar profile, effectively making them ...

The U.S. Navy’s Zumwalt-class destroyers, known for their radical, stealthy “tumblehome” hull design, are undergoing a ...

The US Navy has deployed the USS Michael Monsoor (DDG-1001), one of its three Zumwalt-class stealth destroyers, to Japan in a clear strategic signal to China. -The deployment comes as the troubled ...

The stealth destroyer is slated to be upgraded with a hypersonic missile system that the Navy plans to field by the mid-2020s ...

USS Zumwalt is armed with 80 vertical launch cells for missiles that can strike land and sea targets as well as anti-submarine rockets, but the Type 055 has 112 launch cells capable of the same tasks.

The USS Zumwalt is seen at the Huntington Ingalls shipyard in Pascagoula, Miss., Thursday, Nov. 21, 2024. Credit: AP/Gerald HerbertA U.S. hypersonic weapon was successfully tested over the summer ...

The Navy originally planned to put 32 Zumwalt-class destroyers to sea, a number trimmed to three as the price of each ship, an estimated $8.1 billion, grew after 2005, according to 2008 and 2018 ...

In 2022, the Navy Strategic Systems Programs awarded a $22.8 million contract to Lockheed Martin Space Systems to integrate hypersonic weapons aboard the three Zumwalt-class destroyers.

The USS Zumwalt is a top of the line warship receiving more than $154 million in state-of-the-art upgrades at Ingalls Shipbuilding. By Noah Noble. Published: Aug. 30, 2023 at 11:26 PM CDT ...

The Navy says field testing of the missiles is likely to begin in 2025. The non-nuclear weapons also will be installed on the USS Michael Monsoor, another San Diego-based Zumwalt-class destroyer ...

USS Zumwalt is armed with 80 vertical launch cells for missiles that can strike land and sea targets as well as anti-submarine rockets, but the Type 055 has 112 launch cells capable of the same tasks.