Arthur J. Villasanta – Fourth Estate Contributor
Bath, ME, United States (4E) – The U.S. Navy final week accepted supply of the USS Michael Monsoor (DDG-1001), the second Zumwalt-class guided missile destroyer designed as multi-mission stealth ships. This warship will probably be commissioned into the Navy throughout the yr, and can serve in Asia.
Naval Sea Systems Command stated the USS Michael Monsoor efficiently accomplished intensive checks, trials and demonstrations by its shipbuilder, Bath Iron Works (BIW). Both the Navy and BIW “incorporated many lessons” from building of the first-in-class USS Zumwalt, which joined the United States Pacific Fleet in 2016, stated Capt. Kevin Smith, program supervisor from Program Executive Office Ships. Capt. Smith famous that each events “are proud of the end result.”
Like the USS Zumwalt, the USS Michael Monsoor will probably be assigned to the Pacific Fleet after her commissioning into the Navy.
The Zumwalt-class was initially designed as multi-mission floor combatants tailor-made for superior land assault and littoral dominance. Their foremost mission was to offer credible, unbiased ahead presence and deterrence utilizing their foremost weapons, a pair of Advanced Gun Systems (AGS) 150 mm cannon. Stubborn issues with the ACS means the mission of the Zumwalt-class is now floor warfare.
USS Michael Monsoor is 180 meters in size; has a beam of 24.6 meters and displaces 15,000 tons. She can attain speeds in extra of 30 knots (56 km/h). This class options the distinctive tumblehome wave-piercing hull that dramatically reduces the warship’s radar cross-section.
The U.S. Navy introduced in January 2017 that the USS Zumwalt will start its first operational patrol within the Sea of Japan or the East Sea throughout the yr. The Zumwalt is assigned to the United States Seventh Fleet, one in every of two fleets within the United States Pacific Command (USPACOM) with headquarters in Hawaii.
Her two different sister ships will even be deployed to USPACOM. The different warships within the Zumwalt-class are the USS Michael Monsoor and the USS Lyndon B. Johnson (DDG-1002).
When she joined the Seventh Fleet, the $7.5 billion USS Zumwalt met the promise made by former Secretary of Defense Ash Carter in April 2016 that every one the Zumwalts will probably be assigned to the Pacific as a part of the rebalance of U.S. forces to the area to counter China and promote stability.
Carter stated “all three of our latest class of stealth destroyers, the DDG-1000, will probably be homeported with the Pacific fleet, along with different new army tools slated for the Pacific such because the Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor and the Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighter.
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