This Warship Is Not a Battleship—Its Just a Destroyer
The DDG-1000 Zumwalt is a gee-whiz but modestly armed surface combatant optimized for one mission: shore bombardment.
Let’s get some long-range weaponry out there—pronto. No, the DDG-1000 isn’t a stealth battleship. But it should be. And—suitably armed—it could be.
James Holmes is J. C. Wylie Chair of Maritime Strategy at the Naval War College and author of “Visualize Chinese Sea Power,” in the current issue of the Naval Institute Proceedings. The views voiced here are his alone. This first appeared in late 2015.
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