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The US Navy wants to arm each Zumwalt stealth destroyer with up to a dozen hypersonic missiles
The Zumwalt-class destroyers will be the US Navy's first warfighting vessels to be armed with hyper…
Ryan Pickrell  Â
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US Navy stealth destroyer Zumwalt's deck guns are basically useless, but it's on its way to get new hypersonic missile launchers
The main guns haven't had any ammunition for years, so the US Navy's trying something new: a launch…
Ryan Pickrell  Â
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Stealth Zumwalt destroyers will be first US Navy warships armed with hypersonic missiles, top admiral says
The Navy's top admiral said the service expected to start fielding this capability on the Zumwalt-c…
Ryan Pickrell  Â
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The US Navy's giving a stealth Zumwalt destroyer control of drone ships and aircraft for a future naval combat experiment
The Navy will give the stealth destroyer control of the unmanned assets in an exercise looking at p…
Ryan Pickrell  Â
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The US Navy put stealth destroyer Zumwalt to the test by sailing it into a very rough storm with waves as high as 20 feet
The Zumwalt's captain previously said the warship handles well in rough seas. This latest test conf…
Ryan Pickrell  Â
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Watch the US Navy stealth destroyer Zumwalt fire off a missile for the first time
USS Zumwalt went years without a working combat system, but now the Navy is starting to put its wea…
Ryan Pickrell  Â
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The delivery of the Navy's $8 billion Zumwalt destroyer has been delayed again, putting it years behind schedule
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) explained in May, when the Zumwalt was first expected to…
Ryan Pickrell  Â
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Seen by the US military as a threat for years, Russia's Yasen-class submarines are now on track to get hypersonic missiles
The Yasen-class subs, also known as the Severodvinsk class, are already formidable, but top officia…
Ryan Pickrell  Â
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Step aboard the USS Zumwalt, the largest destroyer the US Navy has ever built
The Zumwalt will fire an Evolved Sea Sparrow Missile and SM-2 from its Mk 57 Vertical Launch System…
Daniel Brown  Â
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The Navy's taking a hard look at hyper velocity railgun rounds for the Zumwalt destroyers that still don't have any ammo
The same concept could presumably be applied to the 155 mm Advanced Gun Systems (AGS) aboard the Zu…
Ryan Pickrell  Â
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After years of headaches, the US Navy's first stealth destroyer is operating farther from home than it's ever been
USS Zumwalt's Japan visit "seems ordinary" but "was actually a culmination of years of hard work an…
Rachel Nostrant  Â
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The US Navy is going to arm all of its destroyers with hypersonic missiles, a top Trump official says
But a retired Navy officer and defense expert said that arming Arleigh Burke-class destroyers with …
Ryan Pickrell  Â
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The destroyer Zumwalt's big guns don't have any ammo and the Navy may ditch them entirely because they don't even work right
Although the Chinese warship is not as technologically advanced as the Zumwalt, which remains unmat…
Ryan Pickrell  Â
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The Navy is trying to get rid of its cruisers again, but it's heading for another fight over their fate
The US Navy says its cruisers are too old and too expensive, but Congress says they're too well arm…
Benjamin Brimelow  Â
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China shows off its new destroyer during massive display of naval power
The destroyer, technically large enough to be classified as a cruiser, has a substantial payload ca…
Ryan Pickrell  Â
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Here's how the world's 2 most powerful stealth destroyers stack up
China launched its first domestically-built Type 055 guided-missile stealth destroyer in July 2017,…
Daniel Brown  Â
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The Navy's stealth destroyers are getting new missiles that will turn them into long range ship killers
The Navy tested the SM-6's anti-ship capability in March of 2016. A SM-6 from an Arleigh Burke-clas…
Ben Brimelow  Â
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China looks set to deploy a railgun on a destroyer by 2025 - and humiliate the US Navy in doing so
Additionally, the Chinese will have to clear the same engineering and operational hurdles that have…
Alex Lockie  Â
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China's first homegrown aircraft carrier and a new destroyer set sail, and experts say it may be a powerful battle group in the making
The Type 001A aircraft carrier, while similar to its refitted Soviet-era predecessor, is "improved …
Ryan Pickrell  Â
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China Is Building A New Fleet Of Guided Missile Destroyers
"The guided missile destroyer Ji'nan (hull number 152), is equipped with multiple sets of home-made…