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The U.S. Navy’s long-troubled Zumwalt class of stealth destroyers may look like they were ripped straight out the pages of a science fiction novel, but after thirty years of development and more than $30 billion spent… These ships are still trying to find a place in America’s warfighting apparatus.
But now, the inclusion of new hypersonic missiles could turn these wayward warships into stealth snipers — and give them renewed purpose in the 21st century.
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