An advanced weapons system for the Navy's first Zumwalt-class destroyer, the DDG 1000, will be built at a plant in central Alabama. British-based BAE Systems is producing the 155-mm Advanced Gun System magazine and the outboard structure for the Mk 57 Vertical Launching System.
Spokesman Dennis Morris of BAE says it's the most advanced gun system in the Navy. He says it will triple the range of a battleship with significantly higher accuracy.
The ship could be in use as early as 2012. It's designed for air and subsurface warfare and will assist marine strike forces in what the Pentagon calls multi-threat settings.
Emphasis ours. So the 14,500 ton 'destroyer' whose most obvious characteristic is its 2 advanced gun systems is actually for air defense and subsurface warfare?
If the reporter can produce an official Navy document or an industry document that actually says "air and subsurface warfare", I think THAT would be very newsworthy.
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