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Biggest U.S. naval destroyer ever headed for testing

USS Zumwalt is 600 feet long
By Steve Berg
Dec 7, 2015

The Associated Press reports the first futuristic-looking Zumwalt-class destroyer sailed out of the Bath Iron Works shipbuilding facility in Maine on Monday, headed out to sea to begin testing.

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The 600-foot-long and 15,000-ton destroyer has electric propulsion, new types of radar and sonar and a sleek design that helps it evade radar.

The project costs about $4.4 billion and will include three ships total.

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