The future guided-missile destroyer USS Zumwalt (DDG 1000) returned from Atlantic Ocean on Thursday after finishing its second spherical of sea trials off the coast of Maine.

These pictures, taken by Dave Cleaveland from MaineImaging.com, present the destroyer’s arrival on the mouth of the Kennebec River close to Portland. 

The ship departed for builder’s trials from Bath Iron Works shipyard in Bath, Maine, positioned simply up the Kennebec, on Monday. The Navy mentioned that throughout the trials most of the ship’s key programs and applied sciences can be demonstrated. The Navy-Industry group was additionally to conduct quite a few operational demonstrations in preparation for acceptance trials in April.

DDG 1000 is the lead ship of the Zumwalt-class destroyers, a category of next-generation multi-mission floor combatants tailor-made for land assault and littoral dominance.

These subsequent photographs have been taken throughout Zumwalt’s first sea trials in December:

Check out MaineImaging.com for extra pictures from round Maine. 

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