Stealth destroyer to be home for 1st hypersonic weapon on US warship
At a Mississippi shipyard, workers are transforming a costly flub of the U.S. Navy into a potent weapon by retrofitting the first shipborne hypersonic weapon aboard the first of its three stealth destroyers.
USS Zumwalt to Host Navy’s First Hypersonic Weapons System
The USS Zumwalt, the Navy’s $7.5 billion stealth destroyer, is being retrofitted to carry hypersonic missiles, marking the first deployment of such weapons on a U.S. warship.
US Navy’s stealth destroyer to deploy first-ever hypersonic missiles
Work on replacing the USS Zumwalt's guns with hypersonic missile tubes is nearing completion at the Huntington Ingalls Industries shipyard.
Navy putting first shipborne hypersonic weapon on vessel once seen as 'costly blunder'
The US is deploying a shipborn hypersonic missile battery to the USS Zumwalt, a destroyer once thought a major mistake.
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The U.S. Navy plans to test the Conventional Prompt Strike (CPS) hypersonic missile system aboard the USS Zumwalt by 2027 or 2028. The CPS, developed by Lockheed Martin, is a hypersonic boost-glide missile capable of traveling at Mach 5 and delivering precision strikes globally within an hour.
Stealth destroyer to be home for 1st hypersonic weapon on a US warship
The USS Zumwalt is at a Mississippi shipyard where workers have installed missile tubes that replace twin turrets from a gun system that was never activated because it was too expensive.
Stealth destroyer USS Zumwalt to be home for 1st hypersonic weapon on a US warship
Recent tests of the advanced weapons by both Russia and China have increased pressure on the US military to hasten their production.
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