The Navy Built a Destroyer With Guns That Never Had Ammo. Now It Gets Hypersonic Missiles

Описание: USS Zumwalt is the biggest destroyer the US Navy has ever built. The Navy spent about $22 billion on three Zumwalt-class destroyers, each armed with two 155mm Advanced Gun Systems that never fired a shot in combat, because the Navy cancelled their only shell when it cost close to $1 million a round. Now the guns are being cut out, and on October 19, 2026, the Navy paid $99 million for the next step in turning these destroyers into the first in the fleet to carry hypersonic missiles.

0:00 The destroyer with guns that never had ammo
0:38 Broken down in the Panama Canal
1:31 The biggest destroyer the Navy ever built
2:08 A gun that could hit 90 miles away
3:10 47 sailors and the end of the battleships
4:04 The $1 million shell
4:50 Why no other shell would fit
5:21 The empty gun bays
5:56 12 hypersonic missiles, 6 built a year
7:07 From failure to first strike
8:01 Big guns or hypersonic missiles?

Warship Weapons #3 — the series that takes the weapons of an American warship one system at a time.

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Sources: Navy Times; Maine Public; Defense Industry Daily; Congressional Budget Office; U.S. Government Accountability Office (NSIAD-99-91); Army Recognition; Huntington Ingalls Industries; 19FortyFive; USNI News.

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