Zumwalt christened
The huge, first (and only?) destroyer of her kind, the USS Zumwalt, (DDG-1000) larger than most cruisers ever commissioned and many battleships, has now passed the christening milestone on Saturday.
The 610-foot, 15,000-ton USS Zumwalt is named after the late Admiral Elmo “Bud” Zumwalt. He served as the youngest Chief of Naval Operation in 1970.
Of course, she will be largely experimental when commissioned, but she is one of the few ships with enough electrical juice to make a rail-gun work, so this could very well be the USS Langley of the rail gun navy.
Stay tuned.
