‘Reaching Nightmarish-Levels’: A Zumwalt-Class ‘Stealth’ Destroyer Caught Fire and The U.S. Navy Has a New Problem to Deal With

‘Reaching Nightmarish-Levels’: A Zumwalt-Class ‘Stealth’ Destroyer Caught Fire and The U.S. Navy Has a New Problem to Deal With

We recently reported that the Zumwalt-class guided missile destroyers (DDGs), after being nearly metaphorically and bureaucratically “sunk” by a combination of an underperforming deck gun and atrociously expensive ammo that fell far short of their long-range striking promises, were metaphorically “raised” by the prospect of being converted into a platform for hypersonic missiles. Well, by eerily coincidental timing, less than a week after that a…