The US Navy Is Testing The Combat Systems Of Its New 'Stealthy' Destroyer

An SH-60R assigned to Air Test and Evaluation Squadron (HX) 21 flies near USS Zumwalt (DDG 1000) as the ship travels to its new home port of San Diego, California. US Navy/Liz Wolter

Scout Warrior: New Stealthy Navy Destroyer Starts Combat System Activation

Engineering problems may have stalled the guided-missile destroyer (DDG) 1000 USS Zumwalt’s transit to the ship’s homeport of San Diego late last year but Raytheon was still able to get the desired head start on testing the vessel’s combat system.

Engineering problems may have stalled the guided-missile destroyer (DDG) 1000 USS Zumwalt’s transit to the ship’s homeport of San Diego late last year but Raytheon was still able to get the desired head start on testing the vessel’s combat system.

Meanwhile the leadership out in Pacific Command (PACOM) anxiously awaits of the arrival of the Zumwalt-class destroyers to the Western Pacific, where the ship is being slated for patrols off the North Korean coast to help curtail that country’s aggressive missile plans.

The company says it “achieved all of” its “planned test objectives during the transit,” which gets the company “off to a good start in San Diego.”

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