USS Zumwalt

The USS Zumwalt (DDG-1000) is a guided missile destroyer of the United States Navy so stealthy that it'll go to sea with reflective material that can be hoisted to make it more visible to other ships.  Besides a shape designed to deflect enemy radar, it features a wave-piercing "tumblehome" hull, composite deckhouse, electric propulsion and new guns.

The Zumwalt new wave-piercing inverted bow and tumblehome hull configuration reduce her radar cross-section.   The ship is designed to look like a much smaller vessel on radar, and it lived up to its billing during recent builder trials.  Despite its size, the warship is 50 times harder to detect than current destroyers thanks to its angular shape and other design features, and its stealth could improve even more once testing equipment is removed, said Capt. James Downey, program manager.

The armament consists of 20 × MK 57 VLS modules, with 4 vertical launch cells in each module, 80 cells total. Each cell can hold one or more missiles, depending on the size of the missiles.  In addition it will have 2 × 155 mm Advanced Gun System with 600 rounds in automated store and an auxiliary store room with another 320 rounds for a total of 920.