US to transform white elephant destroyers by fitting hypersonic weapons

US to transform white elephant destroyers by fitting hypersonic weapons
The USS Zumwalt is seen at the Huntington Ingalls shipyard in Pascagoula, Mississippi (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

The US Navy is to transform three, white elephant, stealth destroyers by fitting them with first-of-their-kind shipborne hypersonic weapons.

The USS Zumwalt is at a Mississippi shipyard where workers have installed missile tubes that replace twin turrets from a gun system that was never activated because it was too expensive.

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