October 29, 2013
High-tech destroyer hits the water at BIW
The first of the Navy’s high-tech Zumwalt destroyers was placed into the Kennebec River Monday and will now undergo the final stages of construction before sea trials scheduled for next fall.
The Portland Press Herald reported the stealthy 610-foot ship is longer and larger than the current Arleigh Burke class of destroyers and has a more angular and planar profile designed to deflect radar.
Crews at Bath Iron Works expect to continue work on the ship through the winter and ultimately deliver the ship to the Navy in 2015.
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