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The Zumwalt-class destroyer is a class of three United States Navy guided-missile destroyers designed as multi-mission stealth ships with a focus on land attack. The class was designed with a primary role of naval gunfire support and secondary roles of surface warfare and anti-aircraft warfare .
Each of the Zumwalt-class destroyers would be equipped with four missile tubes, each with three of the missiles for a total of 12 hypersonic weapons per ship. In choosing the Zumwalt, the Navy is attempting to add to the usefulness of a $7.5 billion warship that is considered by critics to be an expensive mistake despite serving as a test ...
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 US is deploying a shipborn hypersonic missile battery to the USS Zumwalt, a destroyer once thought a major mistake. Navy putting first shipborne hypersonic weapon on vessel once seen as ...
USS Zumwalt (DDG-1000) is a guided missile destroyer of the United States Navy. She is the lead ship of the Zumwalt class and the first ship to be named after Admiral Elmo Zumwalt. [10] [11] Zumwalt has stealth capabilities, having a radar cross-section similar to a fishing boat despite her large size. [12]
The Navy plans for the Zumwalt-class stealth guided missile destroyer and Block V Virginia-class submarine to field the HALO, giving them hypersonic missile capabilities in the near future. [14] In August 2015, the missile was officially designated AGM-158C. [15]
Each of the Zumwalt-class destroyers would be equipped with four missile tubes, each with three of the missiles for a total of 12 hypersonic weapons per ship. In choosing the Zumwalt, the Navy is attempting to add to the usefulness of a $7.5 billion warship that is considered by critics to be an expensive mistake despite serving as a test ...
Strictly speaking, a hypersonic missile could describe any weapon that exceeds five times the speed of sound—i.e. traversing a mile per second—but practically, the term applies to two modern ...