Daily Mail: Watch the US Navy's largest ever 'stealth' destroyer put through its paces in first sea trials - and radical design could be first to be fitted with RAILGUN that can fire a shell over 100 miles at 5,400mph
* The USS Zumwalt launched from Bath Iron Works in Maine on Monday morning
* The 600-foot-long destroyer cruised along the Kennebec River to the Atlantic on its first voyage
* The ship, which weighs 15,000 tons, has taken four years to build at an estimated cost of $4.3 billion
* Ship is the first created by the Navy that could one day support a railgun
The Navy has revealed the first footage of its futuristic new stealth destroyer at sea.
The largest destroyer ever built for the U.S. Navy began its sea trials yesterday.
Future version of the radical design are expected to be used to test a futuristic 'Star Wars' railgun that uses electromagnetic energy to fire a shell weighing 10kg at up to 5,400mph over 100 miles – with such force and accuracy it penetrates three concrete walls or six half-inch thick steel plates.
Update: These are the features of America's most futuristic ship that just hit the waters (Business Insider).
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