The Navy is integrating its most advanced warship with U.S. Pacific Fleet, introducing the troubled ship class into an operational environment. The service is not using the term “deployment” to describe the guided-missile destroyer Zumwalt’s (DDG-1000) presence in the Indo-Pacific. A Navy official told Inside Defense the service is learning about Zumwalt’s maintenance and sustainability to inform future deployments. The Navy is evaluating how the ship class can best operate with other ships and platforms, the official said. The...
