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.
First hypersonic weapon to be retrofitted on US Stealth destroyer
PASCAGOULA, Mississippi: 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.
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 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.
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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Stealth destroyer will be home for first hypersonic weapon on a U.S. warship
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.
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