PhotoWho better to handle the United States Navy’s new futuristic destroyer than a captain named James A. Kirk? The country’s largest destroyer, the U.S.S. Zumwalt, deployed from its home at General Dynamics Bath Iron Works in Maine on Wednesday and set sail with the smallest crew in naval history since the 1930s. “Certainly, I have been ribbed every now and then with someone saying, ‘You’re going where no man has gone before on this class of ship,’” Captain Kirk told The Associated Press. The Zumwalt class of destroyer ships focuses on sea-to-land attacks and is part of a $22.5 billion program.

Source: New York Times September 12, 2016 02:37 UTC