The US Navy is converting Zumwalt-class stealth destroyers into hypersonic missile shooters. The expensive Zumwalt class has struggled to find a suitable mission and weapons. The upgrade is part of ...

The U.S. Navy is gearing up to test its first at-sea platform equipped with the Pentagon's hypersonic missile system, with the USS Zumwalt set for trials by the end of this year. Clint Lawler. The ...

Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) has secured a potential four-year, $490.2 million contract from the U.S. Navy to provide ship activation and engineering services for the service branch’s Zumwalt-class destroyer ...

Admiral Elmo Zumwalt should be remembered as the “conscience of the United States Navy,” which is how then-President Bill Clinton described the combat-decorated former Chief of Naval Operations in his ...

The U.S. Navy’s troubled Zumwalt-class of guided missile destroyers could each end up with twelve hypersonic missiles in the coming years. Speaking at the annual Naval Submarine League, Vice Adm.

The U.S. Navy is transforming a costly flub into a potent weapon with the first shipborne hypersonic weapon, which is being retrofitted aboard the first of its three stealthy destroyers. The USS ...

The U.S. Navy’s most advanced stealth ships don’t look—or fight—like anything that came before them. In this episode, we take you inside the Independence-class Littoral Combat Ship and the ...

The new destroyer will be 58 percent larger than the current DDG-51 class, carry as many as 80 Tomahawk cruise missiles, and cruise at 30 knots. It will deploy new technologies, ranging from the ...

The Constellation-class frigate will now go the same way as the Zumwalt-class destroyer and the Littoral Combat ...

TYSONS CORNER, VA, April 26, 2018 ” A subsidiary of General Dynamics (NYSE: GD) has completed the hull, mechanical and electrical delivery for the future USS Michael Monsoor ship to the U.S. Navy, ...

One of the U.S. programs in development and planned for the Zumwalt is the “Conventional Prompt Strike." It would launch like a ballistic missile and then release a hypersonic glide vehicle that would ...