The Navy Spent $9.5 Billion a Ship to Give the Zumwalt Twelve Hypersonic Missiles. A 40-Year-Old Cruiser Carries Ten Times the Cells
The USS Zumwalt has been rebuilt at extraordinary cost into the Navy's first hypersonic strike ship, and the number at the center of that transformation deserves saying out loud: twelve. For roughly…
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