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By   Paul McLeary on January 14, 2021 at 1:59 PM USS Zumwalt sails with an Independence-class Littoral Combat Ship WASHINGTON: The Navy plans to install hypersonic missiles on its troublesome Zumwalt destroyers, after Congress gave them the green light to start studying the move in the 2021 budget. Multiple Navy officials said this week they’re diving into the effort, even though the USS Zumwalt, the first of the three-ship class, has yet to deploy despite being christened in 2016. The timeline for the Conventional Prompt Strike Weapon to be fitted onto the ship isn’t clear, but first ...

The sixth fleet out of naples the truman in the med. tomahawk crews missiles coming in he defeat air systems. that's the first thing you want to send. in b-1 bombers, b 2 bombers, f-35s and other types of aircraft that can fly stealth into syria and deliver these joint direct attacks. pete: general, these are all precision munitions. >> yes. pete: too precise? should we have done more to strike the air force? >> we want to be able to be as precise as possible because we wanted to minimize collateral damage. we don't want to give the enemy the russians, the iranians, or the syrians any kind of ...

And other munitions that they've got now go all the way back 30 years or so. this is a new generation of ships and equipment, precision munitions, and the idea to do this, to upgrade, goes all the way back to before 2008. this is a culmination of lots of negotiation and discussion, therefore, for almost ten years. quite frankly, it's long overdue, to the extent saudi arabia is actually going to use it in conjunction with our use of similar weapons in the region in order to destroy terrorists, isis and to defend our friends and allies in the region. if it's not going to be used for that, if it'...

I think this year we've seen eight uses of chlorine gas. you can imagine how many uses of chlorine uses last year. nothing was done. they used sarin gas this year. president trump health a news conference that said this crosses many lines with me. just over 24 hours later, 20% of the syrian air force is taken out without a single u.s. casualty. anybody that saw the pictures of the bankers that they put the planes and the bunkers are standing but underneath in the spaces to protect them, all that is left is rubble shows how powerful our precision munitions are. >> stuart: the reaction has not b...

And helping to retake mosul going forward? >> well, you know, we want to protect civilians at all costs. we always adhere to the law of armed conflict, and our iraqi security forces are doing everything they can to protect civilians, their countrymen. so, when we look at hitting specific targets, we want to make sure that we only use precision munitions, and we want to make sure that the type of munition is proportional to the target. we don't want to use something that's too large to take down a specific target. we're trying to eliminate fighters, snipers, say, in a building or on a top, we'r...