DDG 1000 has a 50-fold radar cross section reduction compared to current destroyers, improves strike group defense 10-fold and has 10 times the operating area in shallow water regions against mines.

The Navy's first high-tech Zumwalt-class DDG 1000 destroyer will pioneer a handful of yet-to-be seen destroyer technologies when it is christened this coming weekend.

Previous plan to split construction of three DDG-1000s between two shipyards would have been "horribly inefficient," Defense acquisition chief says. Continue to the site → Skip to Content ...

The total price for all three of the Navy’s planned DDG 1000 destroyers -- DDG 1000, DDG 1001 and DDG 1002 – was listed at $8.9 billion in the fiscal year 2009 budget, according to figures ...

Currently, the Navy’s Arleigh Burke-class (DDG-51) and Zumwalt-class (DDG-1000) make up the service’s destroyer class. Representing the mainstay of the Navy’s surface fleet, ...

The DDG-1000 project’s “gold team” — NGSB and a variety of subcontractors — evaluated a multitude of material combinations, ... balsa core and interior fabrics. A woven glass cloth peel ply also is ...

Welcome aboard the Zumwalt, the Navy’s first DDG-1000 stealth destroyer. Launched just last month, she is an impossibly spaceship-looking trapezoid tower jutting from the still water.

The Navy is evaluating whether to mount its new Electromagnetic Rail Gun weapon aboard the high-tech DDG 1000 destroyer by the mid-2020s, service officials said.

With rumors of cuts to major weapon systems in the forthcoming Obama defense budget the Maine Congressional and business community are launching a preemptive campaign to protect the Bath Iron ...

USS Zumwalt (DDG 1000) Arrival at Ingalls - August 2023 USS Zumwalt (DDG 1000) preparing to dock at Ingalls Shipbuilding on Aug. 19, 2023. PASCAGOULA, Miss., Aug. 29, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- HII ...

PASCAGOULA, Miss., Dec. 06, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- HII’s (NYSE: HII) Ingalls Shipbuilding division successfully undocked USS Zumwalt (DDG 1000), the lead ship of the U.S. Navy’s Zumwalt ...