USS Zumwalt (DDG-1000)

USS Zumwalt (DDG-1000)

USS Zumwalt after floating out of drydock in 2013.
History
United States
Name:	Zumwalt
Namesake:	Admiral Elmo Zumwalt
Awarded:	14 February 2008
Builder:	Bath Iron Works
Cost:	≈$3.5 billion to 4.4 billion
Laid down:	17 November 2011
Launched:	28 October 2013
Christened:	12 April 2014
Commissioned:	15 October 2016
Motto:	Pax Propter Vim (Peace Through Power)
Status:	in active service
Badge:
General characteristics
Class and type:	Zumwalt-class destroyer
Displacement:	14,564 long tons (14,798 t)
Length:	600 ft (182.9 m)
Beam:	80.7 ft (24.6 m)
Draft:	27.6 ft (8.4 m)
Installed power:	Integrated Power System (IPS)
Propulsion:	2 × Rolls-Royce MT30 gas turbines (35.4 MW ea.) driving Curtiss-Wright electric generators 2 × Rolls-Royce RR4500 turbine generators (3.8 MW ea.) 2 × propellers driven by electric motors Total: 78 MW (105,000 shp)
Speed:	33.5 knots (62.0 km/h; 38.6 mph)
Complement:	142
Sensors and processing systems:	AN/SPY-3 Multi-Function Radar (MFR) (X-band, scanned array) Volume Search Radar (VSR) (S-band, scanned array)
Armament:	20 × MK 57 VLS modules, with 4 vertical launch cells in each module, 80 cells total. Each cell can hold one or more missiles, depending on the size of the missiles, including: RIM-66 Standard Missile RIM-162 Evolved Sea Sparrow Missile (ESSM) BGM-109 Tomahawk RUM-139 VL-ASROC 2 × 155 mm Advanced Gun System with LRLAP 920 × 155 mm total; 600 in automated store + Auxiliary store room with up to 320 rounds (non-automatic) and 70-100 LRLAP rounds. 2 × Mk 46 30 mm gun (GDLS)
Aircraft carried:	2 SH-60 LAMPS helicopters or 1 MH-60R helicopter 3 MQ-8 Fire Scout VTUAV

External video

$4 billion USS Zumwalt stranded after breaking down- for the second time on YouTube

USS Zumwalt (DDG-1000) is a guided missile destroyer of the United States Navy. She is the lead ship of the Zumwalt class and the first ship to be named for Admiral Elmo Zumwalt.Zumwalt has stealth capabilities, having a radar cross-section akin to a fishing boat despite her large size. On 7 December 2015, Zumwalt began her sea trial preparatory to joining the Pacific Fleet. The ship was commissioned in Baltimore on 15 October 2016. She is homeported in San Diego, California.

Zumwalt is named after Elmo Russell Zumwalt, Jr., who was an American naval officer and the youngest man to serve as the Chief of Naval Operations. As an admiral and later the 19th Chief of Naval Operations, Zumwalt played a major role in U.S. military history, especially during the Vietnam War. A highly decorated war veteran, Zumwalt reformed the US Navy's personnel policies in an effort to improve enlisted life and ease racial tensions. After he retired from a 32-year naval career, he launched an unsuccessful campaign for the United States Senate.

The hull classification symbol for Zumwalt is DDG-1000, which departs from the guided missile destroyer numbering sequence that goes up to DDG-126, which as of 2016^[update], is Louis H. Wilson, Jr., the latest of the named Arleigh Burke-class destroyers. Zumwalt continues the previous "gun destroyer" sequence left off with the 1983, DD-997, the last of the Spruance class, Hayler. With the production run of the Zumwalt class limited to three units, plans are underway for a third "flight" of Arleigh Burke-class destroyers.