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Zumwalt Back In Water As HII Upgrades To Field Hypersonic Weapons

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Zumwalt Back In Water As HII Upgrades To Field Hypersonic Weapons
HII’s Ingalls Shipbuilding undocked the USS Zumwalt (DDG-1000) on Dec. 6 at the tail end of a maintenance and modernization period where the company is replacing the unused Advanced Gun Systems with four 87-inch large missile vertical launch systems to field the Conventional Prompt Strike hypersonic missile. (Photo: HII)

The first Navy ship set to receive hypersonic weapons is one step closer to testing them after it was undocked at the HII Ingalls Shipbuilding division [HII] Pascagoula, Miss., facility on Dec. 6 during its modernization period. The USS Zumwalt (DDG-1000) first arrived at Pascagoula in August 2023 for an 18-month maintenance and modernization drydock availability to install Conventional Prompt Strike-capable missile tubes (Defense Daily, Aug. 30, 2023). Early in the modernization period, HII put DDG-1000 on land to integrate…

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