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Navy/USMC

Merz: Navy Separating DDG-1000 Gun Ammo From Ship Effort

Friday, April 20th, 2018

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Merz: Navy Separating DDG-1000 Gun Ammo From Ship Effort

The USS Zumwalt (DDG-1000) at the start of its journey from Bath, Maine to its homeport of San Diego, Calif. in 2018. (Photo: U.S. Navy)

The Deputy Chief of Naval operations for warfare systems told a Senate panel last week the Navy has separated the DDG-1000 Zumwalt-class gun and overall ship efforts from each other to prevent Advanced Gun System (AGS) projectile work from dragging down deployment of the overall ship.Vice Adm. William Merz said, “what we found was the advanced gun system has become a particularly hard challenge to get through. Not so much the gun but the projectile.”The Zumwalt-class was originally planned to…

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