The US Navy wants to arm each Zumwalt stealth destroyer with up to a dozen hypersonic missiles

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

The US Navy plans to put a dozen hypersonic missiles on each of its three Zumwalt-class destroyers, according to the latest budget documents.

The Department of the Navy included in its fiscal year 2022 budget proposal a request for funding to put the Conventional Prompt Strike (CPS) Weapon onto all three Zumwalt-class destroyers.

Doing so, the document says, will enable "a flexible, surface combatant-launched, long-range strike capability that leverages stealthy design to achieve precision strikes with low susceptibility to counter targeting."

To outfit the ships with CPS missiles, the Navy plans to modify the vessels and install a cold launch system "with the capacity to carry up to 12 all-up rounds per ship."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/the-us-navy-wants-to-arm-each-zumwalt-stealth-destroyer-with-up-to-a-dozen-hypersonic-missiles/ar-AAKRYar

[bluewater]

1. The Zumwalt Class Destroyer has been a major boondoggle and disappointment

The lead ship is named Zumwalt for Admiral Elmo Zumwalt and carries the hull number DDG-1000. Originally, 32 ships were planned, with $9.6 billion research and development costs spread across the class. As costs overran estimates, the quantity was reduced to 24, then to 7, and finally to 3, significantly increasing the cost per ship to $4.24 billion ($7.5 billion including R&D costs)[1][19][20][2] and well exceeding the per-unit cost of a nuclear-powered Virginia-class submarine ($2.688 billion). In April 2016, the total program cost was $22.5 billion.[2][21][22] The dramatic per-unit cost increases eventually triggered a Nunn–McCurdy Amendment breach and cancellation of further production,[23] so the Navy reverted to building more Arleigh Burke destroyers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zumwalt-class_destroyer

Well, they might as well try to get some use out of the three that have been built, I suppose.

[Chainfire]

2. It sounds like they built the destroyer without a clue as to how they would actually deploy it,

what it's mission would be, or the cost of the ordinance it would use. "Hey, lets build a really cool looking ship and figure out how to use it later." Follow the money.