The contract for the first DDG 1000, now called the Zumwalt class, was signed on Valentine's Day of 2008.
The guided-missile destroyer USS Zumwalt(DDG 1000),
the Navy's most technologically advanced surface ship, underway in formation with the littoral combat ship USS Independence(LCS 2).
The guided-missile destroyer USS Zumwalt(DDG 1000),
left, the Navy's most technologically advanced surface ship, is underway in formation with the littoral combat ship USS Independence(LCS 2).