Last week’s celebration of Fleet Week in Baltimore, including the commissioning ceremony for the Navy’s newest and most technologically advanced destroyer USS Zumwalt (DDG 1000), provides a ...

Welcome aboard the Zumwalt, the Navy’s first DDG-1000 stealth destroyer. Launched just last month, she is an impossibly spaceship-looking trapezoid tower jutting from the still water.

In January 2023, Ingalls was awarded a $10.5 million contract for the modernization period planning of Zumwalt -class guided missile destroyers, USS Zumwalt (DDG 1000) and USS Michael Monsoor (DDG ...

The U.S. Navy is planning for its next-generation destroyer, currently known as the DDG (X), to feature directed-energy weapons and more capacity to carry and launch missiles. According to a ...

PASCAGOULA, Miss., Dec. 06, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- HII’s (NYSE: HII) Ingalls Shipbuilding division successfully undocked USS Zumwalt (DDG 1000), the lead ship of the U.S.

(For more on the DDG-51 and DDG-1000 programs, see CRS Report RL32109, Navy DDG-51 and DDG-1000 Destroyer Programs: Background and Issues for Congress, by Ronald O’Rourke.) LSC Industrial Base ...

By late 2024 the Zumwalt-class DDG-1000 destroyers had turned into a very expensive experiment on how not to build a new class of warships. Because of the high cost, which was eventually about $8 ...

While the new destroyer class’s overall price tag currently sits at $2.5 billion, costs could increase as time goes on. Regardless, the Navy’s case for the DDG (X) program remains solid.

The U.S. Navy's latest "Zumwalt-class" destroyers will soon be commissioned for military operations, AP reported on Sunday. Three Zumwalt-class destroyers – hull numbers DDG-1000, -1001 and ...

The future USS Zumwalt (DDG 1000) is underway for the first time conducting at-sea tests and trials in the Atlantic Ocean Dec. 7, 2015. (U.S. Navy photo courtesy of General Dynamics Bath Iron Works/) ...

The U.S. Navy is planning for its next-generation destroyer, currently known as the DDG (X), to feature directed-energy weapons and more capacity to carry and launch missiles.