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    USS Zumwalt’s Recent Pacific Underway is ‘First Step’ for Future of the Class, Says P

    To save the Zumwalt Class, the Navy is testing the platform prior to installing hypersonic missiles. If it is suited for that roll, it would be a missile carrier.

    USS Zumwalt’s Recent Pacific Underway is ‘First Step’ for Future of the Class, Says PACFLEET CO

    Ahead of next year’s installation of hypersonic missiles, the Navy took one of its most advanced warships out for a three-month underway in the Western Pacific to test the ship’s capabilities and reliability, the commander of U.S. Pacific Fleet told USNI News.


    USS Zumwalt (DDG-1000), this month, wrapped up an operational testing period in the U.S. Pacific Fleet, giving the service the opportunity to work out the destroyer’s systems and crew ahead of the upgrade period that includes outfitting it with hypersonic weapons at Ingalls Shipbuilding in Pascagoula, Miss.


    “We learned a lot. [The] main thing we learned about was how to sustain it as it’s often operated,” Adm. Samuel Paparo told USNI News on Friday at the annual Military Reporters and Editors conference.

    “It’s an exquisite capability with a ton of promise.”

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    We’re really kind of worker-like in getting the Zumwalt west of the dateline, operating her, operating her systems, stretching and training its crew, integrating it with the rest of the fleet to bring its capabilities to bear,” Paparo said.


    In a call with reporters last week, Capt. Shea Thompson, the commodore for Surface Development Squadron 1, declined to say whether Zumwalt operated in the South China Sea during the recent underway.


    “She conducted joint and bilateral simulated maritime fires training with the 613 [Air Operations Center] and B-1 Bombers, to include a Japanese destroyer and CTF-71 staff. And that was to test combat systems capabilities while operating in 7th Fleet,” Thompson said. “They also worked with the forward deployed [explosive ordnance disposal] unit on the mine countermeasures proof of concept and she integrated with the fleet [maritime operations centers] and conducted air operations with the Army.”

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    The project to turn the Zumwalt class into a missile boat (hypersonics) is on path.

    USS Zumwalt, Navy's Stealth Destroyer, to Fire Hypersonic Missile (popularmechanics.com)

    On February 1, the U.S. Navy announced at a symposium in Virginia that it plans to test-fire its new hypersonic weapon from the stealth destroyer USS Zumwalt in December 2025.

    This hypersonic weapon—called the Intermediate-Range Conventional Prompt Strike (IRCPS or CPS)—is designed to release powerful glide vehicle munitions with a range exceeding 1,700 miles and a maximum speed equal to or exceeding a mile per second (Mach 5). The Navy has emphasized it views CPS as a strategic, but non-nuclear weapon reserved for critical time-sensitive targets that are heavily defended like command posts, airbases, radars, missile batteries and depots full of fuel or munitions.

    Reportedly, a virtual control systems to launch the missiles will undergo lab testing in March before graduating to ship-board trials.


    The 16,000-ton Zumwalt and her only two sister ships, Michael Monsoor and Lyndon B. Johnson, are presently the only surface warships slated to integrate the CPS missiles, carrying up to 12 of the 8-ton missiles in four multi-missile launch tubes. These will take the place of the two large gun turrets originally intended to be their primary armament, removed after the relevant ammunition proved too expensive per shot.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Peter1469 View Post
    The project to turn the Zumwalt class into a missile boat (hypersonics) is on path.

    USS Zumwalt, Navy's Stealth Destroyer, to Fire Hypersonic Missile (popularmechanics.com)

    On February 1, the U.S. Navy announced at a symposium in Virginia that it plans to test-fire its new hypersonic weapon from the stealth destroyer USS Zumwalt in December 2025.

    This hypersonic weapon—called the Intermediate-Range Conventional Prompt Strike (IRCPS or CPS)—is designed to release powerful glide vehicle munitions with a range exceeding 1,700 miles and a maximum speed equal to or exceeding a mile per second (Mach 5). The Navy has emphasized it views CPS as a strategic, but non-nuclear weapon reserved for critical time-sensitive targets that are heavily defended like command posts, airbases, radars, missile batteries and depots full of fuel or munitions.

    Reportedly, a virtual control systems to launch the missiles will undergo lab testing in March before graduating to ship-board trials.


    The 16,000-ton Zumwalt and her only two sister ships, Michael Monsoor and Lyndon B. Johnson, are presently the only surface warships slated to integrate the CPS missiles, carrying up to 12 of the 8-ton missiles in four multi-missile launch tubes. These will take the place of the two large gun turrets originally intended to be their primary armament, removed after the relevant ammunition proved too expensive per shot.

    There is a concept called unloading the boat given that upon firing the location of the ship is pinpointed.

    Also, an IRBM could carry a nuclear warhead so an attack on a nuclear-capable foe comes with great risks.
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    Quote Originally Posted by MisterVeritis View Post
    There is a concept called unloading the boat given that upon firing the location of the ship is pinpointed.

    Also, an IRBM could carry a nuclear warhead so an attack on a nuclear-capable foe comes with great risks.
    All war carries risk. Nukes ramps that up exponentially.
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