{"id":407125,"date":"2026-07-21T22:19:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T22:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/407125\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T22:19:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T22:19:14","slug":"navy-faces-major-delay-in-equipping-san-diego-based-destroyer-with-futuristic-hypersonic-missiles-san-diego-union-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/407125\/","title":{"rendered":"Navy faces major delay in equipping San Diego-based destroyer with futuristic hypersonic missiles \u2013 San Diego Union-Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The San Diego-based destroyer USS Michael Monsoor is facing a big delay in becoming one of the first warships in the world to be equipped with hypersonic missiles, a high-speed weapon meant to improve the Navy\u2019s ability to strike heavily defended, long-distance targets.<\/p>\n<p>The General Accountability Office <a href=\"https:\/\/files.gao.gov\/reports\/GAO-26-107974\/index.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">says<\/a> in a new report that the Navy\u2019s efforts to equip the Monsoor and two other Zumwalt-class destroyers with the missiles have fallen two years behind schedule, largely because of quality and production issues.<\/p>\n<p>The Monsoor had been scheduled to travel to a shipyard in Mississippi this year to be outfitted for hypersonic missiles. But now it is unclear when the overhaul will actually begin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The San Diego-based destroyer USS Michael Monsoor is facing a big delay in becoming one of the first&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":407126,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[7,181,23,1703,100,3054,74,84,76,75,1696],"class_list":["post-407125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-california","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-military","tag-news","tag-north-county","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-county","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news","tag-top-stories-sdut"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=407125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/407126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}