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US Navy Eyes 2028 Installation of SPY-6 Radar on Zumwalt-class Destroyers
Raytheon and the US Navy explore accelerating the AN/SPY-6(V)3 radar retrofit on DDG-1000 Zumwalt-class destroyers to as early as 2028.
1 September 2026
Raytheon and the US Navy explore accelerating the AN/SPY-6(V)3 radar retrofit on DDG-1000 Zumwalt-class destroyers to as early as 2028.
An upcoming comprehensive refit to install a battery of hypersonic missiles on the Zumwalt guided-missile destroyers will also increase the stealth warship’s operational range and
The Zumwalt-class destroyers currently in service with the U.S. Navy could receive radar systems initially produced for the cancelled Constellation-class frigates. A Raytheon executive told
In a panel hosted by Naval Systems Command (NAVSEA) at SNA 2026 featuring U.S Navy Captain Clint Lawler, the Program manager for the Zumwalt /
A series of upgrades and modernizations at Pearl Harbor are preparing the Honolulu Naval Base for all three hypersonic-armed Zumwalt-class destroyers and up to three
Lyndon B. Johnson will be the second ship in the U.S. Navy to deploy hypersonics amid the service’s efforts to up-gun its Zumwalt-class destroyers with Conventional Prompt Strike.
HII was awarded a $154.8 million contract modification today for the modernization of USS Zumwalt (DDG 1000).
The US Navy awarded a modification contract worth $315 million to Lockheed Martin, for the Conventional Prompt Strike weapon system.
Guided-missile destroyer USS Zumwalt arrived in Mississippi on August 19 to begin a two-year process to install hypersonic missile tubes.
The U.S. Navy’s NAVSEA has disclosed to Naval News the initial fate of the Zumwalt-class stealth destroyers’ 155mm Advanced Gun Systems.
