What has been described as the most transformational warship in the U.S. Navy has been transformed again. USS Zumwalt (DDG 1000) recently completed modifications to remove her main guns and replace them
- What has been described as the most transformational warship in the U.S. Navy has been transformed again. USS Zumwalt (DDG 1000) recently completed modifications to remove her main guns and replace them with a hypersonic missile capability. The work to have her guns removed to make space for new weapons was conducted at Ingalls Shipbuilding in Pascagoula, Miss.
With the modifications, Zumwalt now carries four “all-up round canisters” for the Conventional Prompt Strike (CPS) missile in place of the forward Advanced Gun System (AGS) gun mount. Each canister can carry three hypersonic CPS missiles. The Army and Navy are jointly testing the new missile, which flies at five times the speed of sound and can strike targets 1,725 miles away.
The CPS missile has long been planned for launched from submarines. In 2023 the Navy contracted with Lockheed Martin adapt the system for use on the DDG 1000 class of surface combatants.
The Zumwalt class is the U.S. Navy’s largest surface combatant, and was originally armed with two AGS mountsa.
“We'll still have some work to do on 1000 in the water, but she will have been on land about a year, where all the big structural work was
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