General Dynamics Corp.’s stealthy, electric-powered destroyer for the Navy will be delivered almost three years late, according to the Pentagon’s latest schedule. The Navy now estimates delivery of the DDG-1000, the first of three Zumwalt-class vessels in a $22.4 billion program, by midyear, according to the Defense Department’s annual “Selected Acquisition Report” on the program. […]
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USS Zumwalt returns to BIW after sea trials
BATH — The stealthy Zumwalt destroyer has completed builder trials and is on track for the next milestone before delivery to the Navy — acceptance trials and inspection starting next month, officials said Friday. The 600-foot destroyer, the largest ever built for the U.S. Navy, spent three days in the rough North Atlantic before returning late […]
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USS Zumwalt leaves BIW again for sea trials
BATH — The nation’s largest and most expensive destroyer headed out to sea Monday for final builder trials before being presented to the Navy for inspection. Engineers and technicians at Bath Iron Works are going to focus on propulsion, mobility and safety to ensure the future USS Zumwalt is shipshape before the next trials, in which […]
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BIW’s Zumwalt to undergo more sea trials next month
BATH — After undergoing sea trials in December, the Zumwalt destroyer is expected to undergo builder’s trials in February, according to a report issued Monday. Lt. Cmdr. Hayley Sims, a Navy spokeswoman, could not confirm the February trials Tuesday but noted the reasons were mostly weather-related. “With the weather, we haven’t gotten confirmation,” she said. […]
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Zumwalt helps rescue Maine fisherman
SOUTH PORTLAND (AP) — The U.S. Navy’s new stealth destroyer, the future USS Zumwalt, assisted in the rescue of a fisherman who had a medical emergency early Saturday off the Maine coast, officials said. The 600-foot, 15,000-ton Zumwalt — the largest destroyer ever built for the Navy — was out for sea trials when Coast Guard officials received […]
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The Navy’s new destroyer Zumwalt is finally at sea. A lot is on the line
The long anticipated 610-foot-long, 15,480-ton destroyer has an unconventional pyramid-shaped hull that slopes out at the bottom with a stealthy “tumblehome” design, rather than sloping in like most warships. That should make it harder to find on radar, but also has long raised questions about how stable it will be when facing tough seas. The […]
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Zumwalt destroyer headed from BIW to sea for tests
More than 200 shipbuilders, sailors and residents gathered to watch as the futuristic 600-foot (183-meter), 15,000-ton (13,600-metric ton) USS Zumwalt glided past Fort Popham, accompanied by tugboats. Kelley Campana, a Bath Iron Works employee, said she had goose bumps and tears in her eyes. “This is pretty exciting. It’s a great day to be a […]
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Pentagon agency casts doubts on BIW projections
The Pentagon agency that oversees contracts says it can’t rely on cost and schedule projections from General Dynamics Corp.’s warship unit in a $22 billion program to build three Zumwalt-class destroyers. The Defense Contract Management Agency wrote in an assessment that it “has no confidence in” the data because the unit, Bath Iron Works, hasn’t […]
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BIW delays Zumwalt destroyer until November
PORTLAND — Delays in installation, testing and activation of electrical systems will push back delivery of the largest destroyer ever built for the U.S. Navy from this summer to November, officials said Tuesday. While the future USS Zumwalt is 94 percent complete, the complexity of the project requires more time for tests and activation aboard the […]
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Lewiston native helping to ready the next class of destroyers at BIW
BATH — Brian Carpenter figured the Navy would never send him home. After all, the son of longtime Lewiston police officer Ed Carpenter had managed to see the world and even serve in the White House. His luck ought to run out, he thought. Then new orders came. “I was like, ‘No way.’ I never thought […]