The most expensive destroyer ever built for the U.S. Navy — so costly that the price tag for each projectile for its high-tech guns is more than $1 million — has arrived in Canada for its first foreign port visit. The same scenario happened with the rocket-assisted ammunition the Zumwalt’s high-tech guns were supposed to fire. USS Zumwalt was supposed to have a stockpile of 600 such projectiles, but the U.S. Navy cut that back to 90. Andrew Carlson, commander of the USS Zumwalt, acknowledged the ship is expensive but he also pointed out that it contains advanced technologies that help Canadians and Americans alike. In the meantime, USS Zumwalt has 80 “launch cells” which can carry a variety of missiles, including Tomahawk cruise missiles.

Source: National Post March 13, 2019 22:30 UTC