
The Navy’s first stealth destroyer recently came back from its first long-range employment that worked through maintenance and logistics, but next year it will start getting hypersonic missiles installed to bring it to a full payload. The USS Zumwalt (DDG-1000) returned to its San Diego homeport on Nov. 10 after a three-month employment to the Western Pacific region that started Aug. 1. “Zumwalt executed the employment exactly as planned and at every milestone that was set out in that plan.…