Thursday, December 8, 2016

DDG1000 USS Zumwalt comes to Home Port in San Diego

An SH-60R assigned to Air Test and Evaluation Squadron (HX) 21
flies near USS Zumwalt (DDG 1000) as the ship travels to its
new home port of San Diego, California
Photo by Elizabeth A Wolter  Navy Media Content Services





Navy's high-tech destroyer Zumwalt arrives Thursday - The San Diego Union-Tribune
The Navy’s $4 billion guided-missile destroyer Zumwalt is slated to dock in San Diego on Thursday morning, following a slew of mechanical glitches that sidelined it for weeks in Virginia and Panama.

The most expensive and revolutionary destroyer ever built, the Zumwalt will homeport at the San Diego Naval Base.

Scheduled to undergo further modifications and testing, the Navy predicts it will be fully prepped for overseas deployments within a year.

Navy's newest surface ship, the USS Zumwalt, arrives in San Diego today - 10News.com KGTV ABC10 San Diego

Navy's newest high-tech destroyer arrives in San Diego - CBS News 8 - San Diego, CA News Station - KFMB Channel 8

Navy’s most technologically advanced ship to arrive in San Diego | fox5sandiego.com

The arrival will come a little more than two weeks after the $4.4 billion ship's propulsion system broke down in the Panama Canal. The 610-foot- long vessel had to pull into port in Panama to make repairs before continuing the voyage to San Diego, which will serve as its home port.

Commissioned in October in Baltimore, the Zumwalt has an angular appearance vastly different from current destroyers of the Arleigh Burke class in order to lower its radar signature. Navy officials said it was the "lead ship of a class of next-generation multimission destroyers."

The destroyer will be capable of performing a range of deterrence, power projection, sea control, and command and control missions while allowing the Navy to evolve with new systems and missions, Navy officials said.


BAE Systems Wins $192M USS Zumwalt Combat System Award
On arrival in San Diego, BAE Systems San Diego Ship Repair will begin installation of combat systems, while the crew will conduct testing and evaluation, and operational integration with the fleet.

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