The U.S. Navy just gave the troubled Zumwalt-class destroyer a stunning second life by ripping out its failed Advanced Gun System and replacing it with 12 Conventional Prompt Strike hypersonic missile ...

When the U.S. Navy commissioned its Zumwalt-class destroyer (DDG-1000) in 2016, it hailed the warship as the most advanced surface combatant in the world. Equipped with a state-of-the-art stealth ...

The USAF together with General Atomics have conducted flight tests of the Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System (APKWS) using ...

GUN SYSTEM: BAE Systems' Armament Systems Division has been awarded a $108.9 million contract modification to complete the design, development and integration of the Advanced Gun System for the DDG ...

The F-35 program cost $1.7T but early deployments exposed low readiness rates and immature software. The Zumwalt destroyer cost over $4B per ship but its main gun became unusable due to $1M per round ...

The guided-missile destroyer USS Zumwalt (DDG 1000) transits Naval Station Mayport Harbor on its way into port in Jacksonville, Florida on October 25, 2016. (Photo by PO2 Timothy SCHUMAKER / US NAVY / ...

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​India has successfully tested its first indigenous modular glide weapon kit, Tactical Advanced Range Augmentation (TARA), ...