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 upgrade is part of ...

The Zumwalt-class Destroyer is Not the Battleship of the Twenty-First Century: The United States Navy is trying to put lipstick on a pig. The Zumwalt-class destroyer was slated to be the next great ...

Key Points and Summary - The U.S. Navy is reinventing the Zumwalt-class destroyers as its first surface ships armed with Conventional Prompt Strike hypersonic missiles. -By ripping out the failed ...

The United States Navy’s Zumwalt-class destroyers were touted as the next evolution in destroyer technology. These otherworldly-looking warships, thin with angled hulls to enhance stealth, have turned ...

Critics have rightly lambasted the Zumwalt-class destroyers as “ships without a mission,” plagued by technological overreach and operational irrelevance. There has been a strange push to claim the ...

The U.S. Navy is gearing up to test its first at-sea platform equipped with the Pentagon's hypersonic missile system, with the USS Zumwalt set for trials by the end of this year. Clint Lawler. The ...

The U.S. Navy is transforming a costly flub into a potent weapon with the first shipborne hypersonic weapon, which is being retrofitted aboard the first of its three stealthy destroyers. The USS ...

Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) has secured a potential four-year, $490.2 million contract from the U.S. Navy to provide ship activation and engineering services for the service branch’s Zumwalt-class destroyer ...

BATH, Maine (AP) — The mother of a fallen Navy SEAL christened the second Zumwalt-class guided missile destroyer Saturday in honor of her son, who died in Iraq when he threw himself on an insurgent’s ...