The U.S. Navy plans to salvage the troubled Zumwalt-class destroyers by basing them in Hawaii and arming them with ...

PASCAGOULA, Miss., Dec. 06, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- HII’s (NYSE: HII) Ingalls Shipbuilding division successfully undocked USS Zumwalt (DDG 1000), the lead ship of the U.S. Navy’s Zumwalt-class of ...

By late 2024 the Zumwalt-class DDG-1000 destroyers had turned into a very expensive experiment on how not to build a new class of warships. Because of the high cost, which was eventually about $8 ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. Navy decision to scrap the DDG-1000 destroyer program after just two ships could have "potentially devastating consequences" said Sen. Susan Collins, a Maine Republican ...

Over the last fiscal year, the United States Navy shelled out more than $1.7 billion for development of the DDG 1000, the Navy’s next-generation destroyer, and in FY 2007 the Navy plans to spend an ...

Pentagon acquisition chief John Young earlier this month laid out a financial argument that at least promoted the U.S. Navy’s DDG-1000 destroyer program, whose procurement was nonetheless curtailed ...

HII (NYSE: HII) has received a $66.7 million cost-plus-incentive-fee contract modification from the U.S. Navy for the DDG 1000 Modernization Period execution. The Department of Defense said the award ...

April 5, 2024: The American Zumwalt-class DDG-1000 destroyers have turned into a very expensive experiment into how not to build a new class of warships. Because of the high cost, which was eventually ...

The DDG-1000 Zumwalt-class destroyer passed a major milestone this month with the delivery of the ship’s composite deckhouse to the U.S. Navy. Weighing in at 900 tons and bigger than half a football ...

Here’s What You Need To Remember: The Zumwalt’s Advanced Gun System didn’t even work that well, with two-thirds the forecast range (around 70 miles). Furthermore, its rocket-boosted LRLAP GPS-guided ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Bowing to congressional pressure, the U.S. Navy said it will buy a third DDG-1000 destroyer in fiscal year 2009, as initially planned, instead of canceling the $29 billion ...