“The current DDG-1000 topside configuration is a performance and weight improvement and cost-avoidance initiative. ... The starboard view Zumwalt DDG-1000 from a Dec. 7, 2015 underway. US Navy ...

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.

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 DDG-1000 Zumwalt is the first of a new class of destroyers designed to support both sea-based and land missions. ... The choice of an all-composite superstructure has helped engineers fulfill ...

Altogether, with the many ways the DDG 1000 design reduces signatures, this 14,000-plus ton ship has the radar cross section of a small fishing boat. The drawback for composites is acquisition cost.

DDG 1000 was built around the main battery of two 155mm AGS guns that could fire the precision-guided, rocket assisted LRLAP rounds at targets 63 to 100 miles away with pinpoint accuracy.

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.

The following is from the Oct. 22 Congressional Research Service report: Navy DDG-51 and DDG-1000 Destroyer Programs. As part of its action on the Navy’s FY2013 budget, Congress funded the ...

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 ...

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.