
General Dynamics [GD] on Thursday said it has successfully completed builder’s trials for the third and final Zumwalt-class destroyer, a key milestone on the way to delivering the large surface combatant to the Navy and allowing its Bath Iron Works (BIW) shipyard to focus on the Arleigh Burke-class destroyer program. The five-day trials with the future USS Lyndon B. Johnson (DDG-1002) “successfully demonstrated the operational capabilities of all hull, mechanical and electrical systems,” Edward Kenyon, BIW program manager, said in…