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GD Completes Builder’s Trials For Final Zumwalt-Class Destroyer

GD Completes Builder’s Trials For Final Zumwalt-Class Destroyer
The future Zumwalt-class destroyer Lyndon B. Johnson (DDG-1002) was launched at the General Dynamics-Bath Iron Works shipyard in Bath, Maine on Dec. 9, 2018. (Photo: General Dynamics-Bath Iron Works)

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…

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