WASHINGTON, United States — America’s newest warship, the super high-tech USS Zumwalt, broke down in the Panama Canal just a few weeks after the vessel was commissioned, the Navy and reports said Tuesday. The guided missile destroyer, whose stealth capabilities give it a strikingly angular shape, needed to be towed Monday to a nearby former US naval station after suffering an “engineering casualty,” the US Naval Institute’s news site reported. An unnamed defense official told USNI News that repairs to the Zumwalt could take up to 10 days. READ: Largest hi-tech US destroyer begins sea trial — NavyThe $4.3 billion Zumwalt is the first in a new line of revolutionary guided missile destroyers. The ship is 600 feet (roughly 180 meters) long and weighs nearly 15,000 tons, making it the largest destroyer in the US fleet.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer November 23, 2016 00:56 UTC