Pacific Ocean - Dec 2016: The guided-missile destroyer USS Zumwalt (DDG 1000), left, is underway in formation with the littoral combat ship USS Independence (LCS 2) on the final leg of its three-month journey to its new homeport in San Diego. (Navy photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Ace Rheaume)
By: FEDweek StaffThe Navy plans to remove gun mounts from the littoral combat ship Zumwalt in the class in order to add hypersonic weapons to the vessel. The U.S. Naval Institute (USNI) Press reported that the process of taking out the 155mm Advanced Gun Systems would begin in October.
“We are removing the guns the upper and lower gun rooms,” Capt. Matthew Schroeder, DDG 1000 program manager, told USNI’s Sam LaGrone.
The removal will create room for the height of the hypersonic missile, Schroeder said. Availability should be complete by 2025, at which point Zumwalt will carry the same Common Hypersonic Glide Body (C-HGB) that was developed for the Army and Air Force, USNI reported. The change will extend U.S. long-range capability.
In time, two other Zumwalt-class ships – Michael Monsour and Lyndon B. Johnson – will undergo the same changes.
“We have plans to do it on all three platforms during their original docking selected restricted availabilities, which are scheduled over the next several years,” Schroeder told USNI.
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