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WASHINGTON, D.C. — There’s enough space and weight margin aboard the Zumwalt-class destroyers to install two tubes for hypersonic missiles without removing the ship’s 155mm gun mounts, Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Mike Gilday told USNI News last month. By 2025, the first 16,000-ton Zumwalt-class destroyer will have at least two sets of missile tubes […]

This post is part of a series looking back at the top naval stories from 2021. This year began with a level of uncertainty for Navy acquisition, as an administration change left naval observers wondering how the new Biden administration would approach the future fleet. While the Trump administration at the end of 2020 unveiled a […]

USNI News Navy Takes Delivery of Sea Hawk Unmanned Vessel Seahawk USV. Leidos Image A second medium-sized unmanned surface vessel prototype has delivered to the Navy, builder Leidos announced this week. Sea Hawk, sister ship to the Navy’s Sea Hunter, was built on the Gulf Coast and is now bound to join the Navy’s Surface Development Squadron One in California, the company said in a Wednesday press release. In 2017, the Office of Naval research awarded Leidos a $35.5 million contract to build the 145-ton trimaran as a follow-up to the original L3-built Sea Hunter that was developed by DARP...

Composite hull of Seahawk, pictured during construction. (Photo: Leidos) The design of the Seahawk medium USV reflects lessons learned from the predecessor Sea Hunter vessel. Leidos announced on 7 April that it has delivered its Seahawk autonomous Medium Unmanned Surface Vessel (MUSV) to the USN. It joins the USN Surface Development Squadron One (SURFDEVRON) in San Diego, California. Seahawk was built under a $35.5 million contract awarded by the Office of Naval Research (ONR) in December 2017. The result is a ‘forward-deployed and rapid-response asset in the global maritime surveillanc...