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The guided-missile destroyer USS Zumwalt (DDG-1000) passed through the Panama Canal on its way to upgrade its weapon systems at a Mississippi shipyard, USNI News has learned. Zumwalt passed north through the Pedro Miguel Locks on Monday, according to photos from ship spotters. A Navy official confirmed that the destroyer had left the canal on […]

Here is what you need to know about some of the Navy’s different types of destroyers, and what sets them apart from other ships.

The Zumwalt-class destroyers will be the US Navy's first warfighting vessels to be armed with hypersonic missiles.

The USS  Michael Monsoor, second of the Zumwalt-class destroyers, recently embarked on trials and will be delivered to the U.S. Navy in the next year. While neither the  Monsoor nor its older sister  Zumwalt are likely to be ready to contribute to a war on the Korean Peninsula in the near future, the crisis shows no signs of abating. As tensions between the United States and North Korea grow, it’s worth asking what role the largest, most lethal destroyers in the U.S. arsenal might play in the conflict. The Last War In the first Korean War, the United States Navy used all four of its I...