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Navy Will Focus Zumwalt On Offensive Surface Strike

Monday, December 4th, 2017

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Navy Will Focus Zumwalt On Offensive Surface Strike

The U.S. Navy's new DDG-1000 destroyer visits Baltimore for its commissioning ceremony. (Photo by Marc Selinger/Defense Daily)

The Navy is working to change the requirements of the often troubled Zumwalt DDG-1000 destroyers to focus the ship on offensive surface strike missions, a service official said.The Navy is convening a team similar to one used to help create the guided-missile future frigate FFG(X) to also alter the direction of the Zumwalt-class destroyers, Rear Adm. Ronald Boxall, director of Surface Warfare, said here at the 2017 Combat Systems Symposium organized by the American Society of Naval Engineers (ASNE).The Navy…

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