The USS Zumwalt (DDG-1000) is back on the water and one step closer to redefining its role in the US Navy. After completing builder’s sea trials at HII’s Ingalls Shipbuilding, the stealth destroyer has cleared a major milestone following a modernization that turns it into the Navy’s first surface combatant built to field Conventional Prompt Strike (CPS ) hypersonic weapons.
The trials mark the culmination of months of work at Ingalls’ Pascagoula, Mississippi, shipyard, where the lead ship of the Zumwalt class underwent one of the most significant midlife transformations ever attempted on a US destroyer.
For the Navy, the moment signals that a ship once criticized for unrealized potential is moving into a mission set built around speed, reach, and strategic deterrence.
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