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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 .
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 ]
Elmo Russell "Bud" Zumwalt Jr. (November 29, 1920 – January 2, 2000) was a United States Navy officer and the youngest person to serve as Chief of Naval Operations.As an admiral and later the 19th Chief of Naval Operations, Zumwalt played a major role in United States military history, especially during the Vietnam War.
Alec Zumwalt (born 1981), American baseball coach Elmo Zumwalt (1920–2000), U.S. Navy admiral and Zumwalt -class destroyer namesake Rick Zumwalt (1951–2003), American actor and arm-wrestler
Zumwalt Prairie area map. The Zumwalt Prairie grassland is situated on a basalt plateau which varies in elevation from 3,500 to 5,500 feet (1,100 to 1,700 m) and is dominated by several native bunchgrasses, including Idaho Fescue (Festuca idahoensis), Bluebunch wheatgrass (Pseudoroegneria spicata), Sandberg's Bluegrass (Poa secunda) and many species of wildflowers.
Zumwalt dedicated On Watch to Malcolm Scott Wine, who was the deputy director of Zumwalt's unsuccessful campaign for the Democratic Party-nomination for United States Senator from Virginia. Wine died in 1976, the year of the book's publication, of epileptic-related respiratory arrest.
The distinctive hull of the Zumwalt class was derived from the SC-21 program.. SC-21 (Surface Combatant for the 21st century) was a research and development program started in 1994 intended to design land attack ships for the United States Navy.
James Peter Zumwalt (born April 13, 1956) [1] is an American diplomat with expertise in trade, economy, and East Asia. On November 19, 2014, he was confirmed by the U.S. Senate as the U.S. Ambassador to Senegal and to Guinea-Bissau .