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Navy Plans Hypersonic Test From DDG-1000 By December 2025

Friday, February 3rd, 2023

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Navy Plans Hypersonic Test From DDG-1000 By December 2025

Guided-missile destroyer USS Zumwalt (DDG-1000) sails through the Pacific Ocean on April 13, 2022 while underway in the U.S. 3rd Fleet. (Photo: U.S. Navy by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Christopher Sypert)

The Navy is planning to conduct a hypersonic missile test launch off the USS Zumwalt (DDG-1000) by December 2025, an official said recently. “So timeline-wise…we’re supposed to do a test shot no later than December of ‘25 is the expectation. In order to make that happen, part of it is good old [Surface Warfare Officer] micromanagement. There are no less than five captains involved in making sure this happens,” Capt. Tyson Young, program manager at Program Executive Office for the…

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