U.S. Navy’s Largest, Most Expensive, and Most Advanced Destroyer Ever

U.S. Navy’s Largest, Most Expensive, and Most Advanced Destroyer Ever

The DDG 1000 is the lead ship of the new Zumwalt-class, the U.S. Navy’s next-generation, guided-missile naval destroyer. The Zumwalt-class features a state-of-the-art electric propulsion system, a wave-piercing tumblehome hull, a stealthy low radar profile design, and the latest war fighting technology and weaponry available.

At a total of cost of nearly $4 billion, the DDG 1000 is also the most expensive destroyer ever built for the U.S. Navy.

The DDG-1000s are officially armed with:

Eighty MK57 Advanced Peripheral Vertical Launch (PVLS) cells for Tactical Tomahawk, Evolved Sea Sparrow Missile (ESSM), Standard Missile, and Vertical Launch Anti-Submarine Rockets (VLA ASROC). Maritime Tomahawk and LRASM can also be included, although shipboard VLS-launched LRASM has not been fielded as of mid-2020.

Two inactive Advanced Gun System (AGS) 155 mm guns, each capable of firing 10 rounds per minute and each gun having a 300-round magazine. Currently, no rounds exist for these guns, not even training rounds, although the U.S. Navy is exploring all options for these guns.
Two (MK 46) 30mm Close-in Guns Systems (CIGS) over the helicopter hangar.
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