--- title: "Check Out These Detailed Images Taken Aboard the Navy’s New Stealth Destroyer" description: "The most advanced surface combatant ever built makes its first port of call." date: "2016-09-11" modified: "2019-05-25" authors: - name: "Tyler Rogoway" job_title: "Editor-in-Chief" link: "https://www.twz.com/authors/tyler-rogoway" url: "https://www.twz.com/5155/check-out-these-detailed-images-taken-aboard-the-navys-new-stealth-destroyer" categories: - "Destroyers" - "Navies" - "Sea" - "U.S. Navy" - "Zumwalt Class" tags: - "Captain James Kirk" - "Commissionings" - "DDG-1000" - "destroyers" - "stealth" - "Zumwalt Class" --- # Check Out These Detailed Images Taken Aboard the Navy’s New Stealth Destroyer ![]() *www.twz.com* The *USS Zumwalt* (DDG-1000) is on its delivery voyage from General Dynamics’ [Bath Iron Works ]()in Bath, Maine, to Baltimore, where it will be commissioned into the Navy’s inventory on October 15th. After that, the *Zumwalt* will make the long voyage to its new homeport in San Diego. Along the way, *Zumwalt* made a port call—her first ever—in Newport, Rhode Island, where some lucky folks got a tour. Photos of *Zumwalt’s* interior have been in limited supply, but now with the ship about to make major news, the Navy seems willing to loosen these restrictions. Check out these photos via the AP below: ![ap\_16253742048049.jpg]() *Shot taken from the bow of the *Zumwalt* showing the low-observable (stealthy) housing of one of the ship's 155mm AGS, as well as the some of the 80 individual vertical launch cells that line the ship's gunnels. , *AP** ![ap\_16253732844598.jpg]() *A rare shot of the bridge of the *Zumwalt* including the array of big-screen monitors that repeat seamless video imagery from cameras distributed around the perimeter of the ship. , *AP** ![ap\_840510420514.jpg]() *The passageways inside the Zumwalt are suprisingly spacious., *AP** ![ap\_16253747346619.jpg]() *A shot from inside *Zumwalt's* 7,500 square foot hangar bay., *AP** ![ap\_924732505176.jpg]() **Zumwalt's* stealthy composite deckhouse with various apertures for sensors and mechanical systems. The bridge is located behind the windows running across the structure. , *AP** ![ap\_192250583322.jpg]() *Another one of *Zumwalt's* inner passages. , *AP** ![ap\_16253734212287.jpg]() *It may be harder to detect and attack on the high-seas, but in port *Zumwalt* requires the same old-school force protection as its less stealthy counterparts., *AP** ![ap\_217818146261.jpg]() *The Zumwalt sits at rest in Newport, RI, during its first port of call. This shot gives a good view of all the sensors and openings laid into its composite deckhouse., *AP** What was not pictured was [*Zumwalt’s* cutting-edge Mission Center](), which supposedly looks like something on a sci-fi starship. Also not shown are the *Zumwalt’s* twin 155-mm Advanced Gun Systems that are housed on the bow of the [ship’s tumblehome hull](). For a destroyer, the *Zumwalt* is very large. 610 feet long, 80.7 feet wide and displaces a whopping 15,000 tons. As a comparison, an *Arleigh Burke* class destroyer, the mainstay surface combatant of the US Navy, is roughly 100 feet shorter, 15 feet narrower and has a smaller displacement by about 6,000 tons. This is one big-ass destroyer. ![ap\_16251787428315\_0.jpg]() *A great shot of *Zumwalt* showing the ship's stealthy openings along her hull that allow her to operate safely as any ship while in dense waterways and while docking. When on combat patrols the ship would "clean-up" to present a minimal radar return. r , *AP** Once *Zumwalt* settles in at Naval Station San Diego, Captain James Kirk (no kidding) and his crew of about 150, roughly half that of an *Arleigh Burke* class destroyer, will run the highly automated ship and its brand new combat system through its paces during a long regime of exercises. If this post-delivery maintenance availability period goes as planned it will culminate with the *Zumwalt* being certified as operational in 2018. *Contact the author Tyler@thedrive.com* https://youtube.com/embed/P0lAQB8bhdk ## Author Tyler’s passion is the study of military technology, strategy, as well as foreign policy, and he has fostered a dominant voice on those topics in the defense and national security space. Tyler was the creator of the hugely popular defense site *Foxtrot Alpha* before developing *TWZ*, which he continues to lead as the Editor-In-Chief to this day. ### Author social links [Twitter]()