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Zumwalt To Finish Hypersonic Weapon Tube Install By End Of 2025, DDG-1002 to Start Mod in 2026

Zumwalt To Finish Hypersonic Weapon Tube Install By End Of 2025, DDG-1002 to Start Mod in 2026
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 Navy’s Zumwalt-class destroyer program manager this week said the first ship to get the new hypersonic missile system should finish installing missile tubes and be ready for testing by the end of the year, with the next ship due to start modification work in 2026. “The USS Zumwalt will be the first maritime platform to deploy [Conventional Prompt Strike] and is due for testing to start by the end of the year," Capt. Clint Lawler, program manager for the…

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