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US Navy’s New Stealth Destroyer Fitted With New 15-Ton Turbine Engine

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US Navy’s New Stealth Destroyer Fitted With New 15-Ton Turbine Engine

The U.S. Navy’s latest stealth destroyer has been retrofitted with an engine transplant after suffering damage during sea trials.

US Navy’s New Stealth Destroyer Fitted With New 15-Ton Turbine Engine
Credit: U.S. Navy

The future USS Michael Monsoor, the second ship of the Zumwalt-class, the U.S. Navy’s biggest and technologically most advanced new class of guided-missile destroyers, had one of its two main turbine engines replaced after suffering damage to the turbine blades during acceptance trials earlier this year.

Although the engine still worked, the U.S. Navy decided to replace one of two Rolls-Royce MT30 Main Turbine Generators, a derivative of the Rolls-Royce Trent 800 that powers the Boeing 777 twin-engine jet airliner, following the discovery that a foreign object had damaged some of the engine’s blades.

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