Stealth destroyer to be home for 1st hypersonic weapon on US warship

PASCAGOULA, Mississippi: At a Mississippi shipyard, workers are transforming a costly flub of the U.S. Navy into a potent weapon by retrofitting the first shipborne hypersonic weapon aboard the first of its three stealth destroyers.

On the USS Zumwalt, workers installed missile tubes to replace twin turrets from a gun system that had never been activated because it was too expensive. Once complete, the Zumwalt w