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DDG 1000
A few days ago, construction of the first DDG 1000, the USS Zumwalt, passed a milestone. Seemingly without effort, the skilled workers at Bath Iron Works shipyard raised a 1,000 ton deckhouse 95 feet in the air, slid the ship’s hull underneath and lowered this massive structure to its precise
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Date:
12/20/2012
The service hardest hit over the past decade by program terminations and cutbacks has been the Marine Corps. First there was the decision to truncate the Navy’s DDG 1000 program -- the future fire support platform for amphibious operations -- at three ships. Then there was the decision to terminate
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Date:
9/6/2011

