Stealthy New Navy High-Tech Destroyer, the USS Zumwalt to be Commissioned
[Kris Osborn]
Kris Osborn
Friday at 8:08 PM
The Navy's new stealthy destroyer will soon fire precision rounds from its long-range deck gun and fire SM-2 missiles from its vertical launch tubes.
The Navy's new "first-of-its-kind," high-tech stealthy destroyer, armed with the most lethal weapons ever engineered onto a surface ship, is slated for commissioning on Saturday Oct. 15, in Baltimore, Md.
The ship will soon go to San Diego, Calif., where it will go through what’s called “ship activation" - a process of integrating the major systems and technologies on the ship leading up to an eventual live-fire exercise of its guns and missiles.
As part of this process, the Navy will eventually fire long-range precision guns and missiles from its lethal, stealthy new destroyer -- in anticipation of its ultimate deployment on the open seas, service and industry officials explained.
http://www.scout.com/military/warrior/story/1671585-inside-navy-new-lethal-stealthy-destroyer
