
General Dynamics’ Bath Iron Works (BIW) launched the last Zumwalt-class destroyer, the future USS Lyndon B. Johnson (DDG-1002), on Dec. 9 at its facility in Bath, Maine.The U.S. Navy underscored the process of launching a ship takes several days to move it from a land-level facility to the dry dock, then slowly flood the dry dock until the ship is afloat. Once the vessel is in the water, final outfitting and production can start.Capt. Kevin Smith, DDG-1000 program manager, said,…