I love the look of this ship, she's a beauty! I hate the fact that it costs so much, and because of it were getting so few of them. Also, you forgot to mention on really cool fact: At the helm is Captain James Kirk. :)

The guns are 115 mm? That's about 4½ inches and smaller than modern tank guns. One must wonder what targets the navy envisions for such a puny weapon.

As they say "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder". Personally, I think it's really ugly but maybe that's just me :)

Mr Wikipedia mentions the Zumwalt can carry a combination of 80 missiles: from ESSM, anti-sub rockets to the Tomahawk.
Maybe future developments will allow it to also submerge and navigate underwater then come back up undetected on the other side of the planet.

It looks fast. What is the speed?

piperTom: That "puny weapon" has a better than 70 mile range and fires not only precision, but very advanced warheads.
As you can shoot through both inner and outer hulls of most modern ships with a high powered rifle, it's more than enough.
Then there's the missiles...
And the small crew and efficient engines reduce operating cost tremendously over a comparable boat with diesels or boilers and larger crew.

...that would make one hell of a waterfront condo...

What a waste of our tax dollars all thanks to the war machine and their sponsors in Congress.

$4 billion a copy for ships to more effectively destroy people overseas. I would have thought that the country's existing bombers and cruise missiles and fighter jets have already demonstrated the ability to kill millions of people quite effectively and that would be enough. But in terms of death and destruction the American military is not aware of the concept of overkill. Instead we spend 62% of our discretionary tax money on war and occupation when we cannot as a nation feed or educate our children or maintain current infrastructure much less develop more efficient means of energy production or transport or health care. Why is killing such a priority for neocon capitalists?

Hello... The first platform to be sunk by an adversary at the outbreak of political hostilities. Plan the future is this tube gliding to Mars and beyond. If it survives the humans slaughtering each other over money.