The U.S. Navy’s three Zumwalt-class destroyers are caught between two weapon systems. Their original 155mm guns were removed after specialized ammunition approached $1 million per round, but the ...

The U.S. Navy originally planned 32 Zumwalt-class stealth destroyers. Only 3 were built — USS Zumwalt, USS Michael Monsoor, and USS Lyndon B. Johnson. Total program cost was approximately $22.5 to $23 ...

New NAVFAC documents reveal U.S. Navy plans for a hypersonic missile storage facility at NWS Yorktown to support CPS-equipped ...

The Government Accountability Office lambasted the Pentagon for its haphazard approach to hypersonic missile development—leading to a per-unit cost of around $67 million and an anemic production rate.

Battleship: The Zumwalt-class destroyer, once heralded as the future of the U.S. Navy, has become a costly misstep. Initially envisioned as a 32-ship fleet, only three were produced due to... What You ...

According to a report by Defence Blog, the U.S. Navy is awarding Huntington Ingalls Industries an additional $99.1 million to advance the destroyer USS Lyndon B. Johnson (DDG 1002), the last of three ...

The U.S. Navy awarded HII’s Ingalls Shipbuilding a $99 million contract modification to conduct system testing and sea trials ...

A U.S. Navy Admiral is so gung-ho about the military branch’s in-development electromagnetic railgun that he hopes to bypass creating a prototype and instead mount the gun on a destroyer ship that is ...

Three sailors were injured this week in a fire aboard a destroyer in Mississippi, a Navy spokesperson confirmed. On Sunday, April 19, at approximately 9:45 p.m. Pacific Standard Time, a fire broke out ...

The keel was laid for the USS Lyndon B. Johnson January 2017. But nearly 10 years later, it has not been commissioned into ...

After the $4 billion Zumwalt left the Bath Iron Works shipyard, it embarked on a journey down the Kennebec River in Maine this week, heading for the Atlantic Ocean and the start of sea trials. Looking ...