The Navy was facing a choice between either fielding hypersonic weapons or keeping a planned naval gun on the DDG(X) future destroyer program until the Trump administration’s push to supersede it with a battleship allowed them to do both weapons and more, the Navy director of surface warfare said this week. Speaking during the Surface Navy Association annual symposium on Tuesday, Rear Adm. Derek Trinque, director of surface warfare (N96), said “I did not expect to be told to build…
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