USS Zumwalt: Guided Missile Destroyer of the US

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USS Zumwalt (DDG-1000) is a guided missile #Destroyer of the United States #Navy. She is the lead ship of the Zumwalt class and the first ship to be named for Admiral Elmo Zumwalt.
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Zumwalt has stealth capabilities, having a radar cross-section akin to a fishing boat despite her large size. On 7 December 2015, Zumwalt began her sea trial preparatory to joining the Pacific Fleet. The ship was commissioned in Baltimore on 15 October 2016. She is homeported in San Diego, California.

Name: Zumwalt
Namesake: Admiral Elmo Zumwalt
Awarded: 14 February 2008
Builder: Bath Iron Works
Cost: $3.5 billion to 4.4 billion
Laid down: 17 November 2011
Launched: 28 October 2013
Christened: 12 April 2014
Commissioned: 15 October 2016
Motto: Pax Propter Vim (Peace Through Power)
Status: in active service, as of 2016

General characteristics
Class and type: Zumwalt-class destroyer
Displacement: 14,564 tons
Length: 600 ft (182.9 m)
Beam: 80.7 ft (24.6 m)
Draft: 27.6 ft (8.4 m)

Installed power: Integrated Power System (IPS)

Propulsion:
2 × Rolls-Royce MT30 gas turbines (35.4 MW ea.) driving Curtiss-Wright electric generators
2 × Rolls-Royce RR4500 turbine generators (3.8 MW ea.)
2 × propellers driven by electric motors
Total: 78 MW (105,000 shp)

Speed: 33.5 knots (62.0 km/h; 38.6 mph)

Complement: 142

Sensors and processing systems:
AN/SPY-3 Multi-Function Radar (MFR) (X-band, scanned array)
Volume Search Radar (VSR) (S-band, scanned array)

Armament:
20 × MK 57 VLS modules, with 4 vertical launch cells in each module, 80 cells total. Each cell can hold one or more missiles, depending on the size of the missiles, including:
RIM-66 Standard Missile
RIM-162 Evolved Sea Sparrow Missile (ESSM)
BGM-109 Tomahawk
RUM-139 VL-Asroc
2 × 155 mm Advanced Gun System with LRLAP
920 × 155 mm total; 600 in automated store + Auxiliary store room with up to 320 rounds (non-automatic) and 70-100 LRLAP rounds.
2 × Mk 46 30 mm gun (GDLS)

Aircraft carried:
2 SH-60 LAMPS helicopters or 1 MH-60R helicopter
3 MQ-8 Fire Scout VTUAV
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