The class is a Zumwalt-class destroyer of the United States Navy, whose construction began in October 2008 with the first unit to the yards Bath Iron Works-The head of the class was devoted to Admiral Elmo Zumwalt, an important figure in the US Navy sixties and seventies, as chief of naval operations and the author of a major reform of the navy personnel.

Initially scheduled for 32 specimens, these for implementation problems and increased costs have been reduced first to 10 and then to 3 and the program is considered at risk by the US Navy as defined by the amendment Nunn-McCurdy of 2010 on cuts to the costs of defense [3] [4]. The project contemplates a hull concept of stealth very driven, electronic avant-garde, two multiarma vertical launchers for a total of 256 missiles, two automatic guns 155mm and two 57mm CIWS systems for the defense of a point. The project also includes the installation of induction cannons (railgun) when this technology will be mature -
For the first time since the Russo-Japanese War of 1905, a military vessel is shaped like a bow to spur, this time not as an offensive weapon, but to reduce the radar signature and "open" the waves rather than ride them