Change of course for the Zumwalt destroyers

Despite their high level of technical development, the futuristic-looking ZUMWALT-class destroyers have been criticised in the American media for years. Now the U.S. Navy is daring to make a new start.

The end of the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Union heralded a period of unchallenged dominance on the world's oceans for the U.S. Navy, in which conflicts with equal opponents on the high seas seemed rather unlikely. The tasks of the naval forces in providing fire support to forces operating on land, however, remained unchanged,