USS Zumwalt completes sea trials after refit as the Navy's first hypersonic missile ship

Lockheed Martin/Conventional Prompt Strike

HII's Ingalls Shipbuilding finished builder's sea trials of USS Zumwalt after a modernization that replaced its two 155 mm Advanced Gun Systems with missile tubes for Conventional Prompt Strike. It is the Navy's first warship fitted for hypersonic missiles; sister ship Lyndon B. Johnson is now being converted.

• Zumwalt arrived at Pascagoula in August 2023 and was undocked in December 2024.
• USS Michael Monsoor will get CPS in a later yard period.
• The missile itself has not yet flown from the ship.