The UNITED STATE Navy’s most recent and also most sophisticated destroyer is embeded Panama after enduring an design casualty throughout a transportation of thePanama Canal

A UNITED STATE Navy declaration gotten by USNI News claimed the destroyer, USS Zumwalt, got on a southbound transportation of the canal on Monday when it experienced the casualty and also needed to be lugged to a berth. Zumwalt is currently picked up repair work at the previous united state Naval Station Rodman, the record claimed.

The occurrence is the 2nd design casualty including the USS Zumwalt and also comes simply one month after the United States Navy’s most recent Littoral Combat Ship experienced damages in the canal throughout a return check out to shipyard after several engine failings.

The USS Zumwalt (DDG 1000) is en course to its homeport of San Diego following its appointing in Baltimore in October.

Third Fleet spokespersonCmdr Ryan Perry provided a declaration late Monday:

“Vice Adm. Nora Tyson, commander, US Third Fleet, has directed USS Zumwalt (DDG 1000) to remain at ex-Naval Station Rodman in Panama to address engineering issues that occurred while transiting the Panama Canal. The timeline for repairs is being determined now, in direct coordination with Naval Sea Systems and Naval Surface Forces. The schedule for the ship will remain flexible to enable testing and evaluation in order to ensure the ship’s safe transit to her new homeport in San Diego.”

USNI News reported that the repair work might use up to 10 days.

The 610-foot USS Zumwalt is the lead ship of the brand-new Zumwalt- course, the united state Navy’s next-generation, guided-missile marine destroyer. The course includes a modern electrical propulsion system, a wave-piercing tumblehome hull, a sneaky reduced radar account style, and also the most up to date battle battling innovation and also weapons readily available. The destroyer is likewise very first united state Navy contender surface area ship to be geared up with an incorporated power system (IPS) giving about 78 megawatts of electrical power for all propulsion and also ship solutions requires.

Monday’s casualty in the Panama Canal is the 2nd experienced by the destroyer considering that leaving Bath Iron Works in Maine inSeptember During mixed-up screening on September 19, the ship experienced a salt water leakage in its propulsion system. “The crew discovered the casualty after detecting a seawater leak in the propulsion motor drive lube oil auxiliary system for one of the ship’s shafts,” UNITED STATE Naval Surface Forces claimed in a declaration at the time.

Following the occurrence the destroyer undertook repair work at Naval Station Norfolk prior to remaining to Baltimore for its appointingOct 15.

Upon arrival in San Diego, the destroyer is set up to participate in a Post Delivery Availability and also Mission Systems Activation and also is anticipated to be incorporated right into the fleet in 2018 adhering to examination and also analysis.

Bath Iron Works, component of General Dynamics, has actually been appointed to develop 3 Zumwalt- course destroyers for the united state Navy, Zumwalt (DDG 1000), Michael Monsoor (DDG 1001) and also Lyndon Johnson (DDG 1002).