STEALTH DESTROYER TO BE HOME FOR 1ST HYPERSONIC WEAPON ON A US WARSHIP
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✍️ The US Navy is transforming a costly mistake into a potent weapon by retrofitting a stealthy destroyer with a shipborne hypersonic weapon.
👉 Hypersonic weapon travels at speeds of Mach 5 or higher 👉 Missile tubes replace gun system that was never activated due to high cost 👉 US Navy is accelerating development of hypersonic weapons due to national security concerns 👉 Conventional Prompt Strike program would launch like a ballistic missile and release a hypersonic glide vehicle 👉 Each Zumwalt-class destroyer would be equipped with four missile tubes, each with three hypersonic weapons 👉 Total cost of 300 hypersonic weapons and maintenance over 20 years would be nearly $18 billion
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