The Navy’s new stealthy super-destroyer, the soon to be named USS Zumwalt (DDG-1000), already has something to be proud of, even though it just left port on its first set of sea trials last week. Early Saturday morning the intimidating-looking surface combatant assisted in a rescue operation of a nearby fishing boat…
Pre-Commissioning Unit Zumwalt, soon to be known as the USS Zumwalt, is the United States Navy’s newest and most advanced surface warfare ship. It’s almost an experiment in its own right, with only three ships planned, only 60 percent of the crew of a regular destroyer, and enough power to feed railguns and lasers…
The DDG-1000 Zumwalt Class Destroyer could very well revolutionize the way the Navy does its surface warfare business. One of its biggest innovations is ditching the cramped, darkly lit Combat Information Center (CIC), a fixture for many decades on past USN combat ships, and replacing it with the state-of-the-art,…
