Zumwalt To Finish Hypersonic Weapon Tube Install By End Of 2025, DDG-1002 to Start Mod in 2026
HII’s Ingalls Shipbuilding undocked the USS Zumwalt (DDG-1000) on Dec. 6 at the tail end of a maintenance and modernization period where the company is replacing the unused Advanced Gun Systems with four 87-inch large missile vertical launch systems to field the Conventional Prompt Strike hypersonic missile. (Photo: HII)
By Rich Abott |
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01/16/2025
The Navy’s Zumwalt-class destroyer program manager this week said the first ship to get the new hypersonic missile system should finish installing missile tubes and be ready for testing by the end of the year, with the next ship due to start modification work in 2026.
“The USS
Zumwalt will be the first maritime platform to deploy [Conventional Prompt Strike] and is due for testing to start by the end of the year,” Capt. Clint Lawler, program manager for the Zumwalt-class Destroyer program office at Program Executive Office Ships, said Wednesday during the Surface Navy Association’s annual symposium in Arlington, Va.
DDG-1000 arrived at HII’s Ingalls Shipbuilding Pascagoula, Miss., shipyard in 2023 to start the maintenance and modernization work that included replacing its unused Advanced Gun System with four 87-inch large missile vertical launch system tubes to field the Conventional Prompt Strike (CPS) hypersonic missile system (Defense Daily, Aug. 30, 2023).
The new missile tubes can field up to 12 total CPS missile rounds.
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