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National Security Adviser: All Destroyers Getting Hypersonic Missiles

National Security Adviser: All Destroyers Getting Hypersonic Missiles
The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Preble (DDG-88) transits the Indian Ocean in March 2018 while underway with the Theodore Roosevelt Carrier Strike Group for a regularly scheduled deployment in the U.S. 7th Fleet area of operations. (Photo: U.S. Navy)

President Trump’s national security adviser on Wednesday said the Navy plans to field hypersonic missiles on all destroyers. While the service previously said it planned to base Conventional Prompt Strike (CPS) hypersonic missiles on Virginia-class submarines and possibly Zumwalt-class destroyers, National Security Advisor Robert O’Brien said they also plan to add them to all three flights of the Arleigh Burke-class destroyer. “The Navy’s Conventional Prompt Strike program will provide hypersonic missile capability to hold targets at risk from longer ranges.…

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