
Navy deploys first hypersonic weapon on ship that was once seen as a ‘costly blunder’
The Pentagon is equipping the first-ever ship-born hypersonic missile system for a US stealth destroyer once considered defunct. The USS Zumwalt is stationed at a shipyard in Mississippi while it undergoes renovation. The U.S. Navy is installing missile tubes toward the ship’s bow, where two inactive gun turrets once stood. The turrets were never activated…