It must surely be the US Navy stealth destroyer the USS Zumwalt (DDG-1000), launched in October 2013. For stealth, the ship has an angular shape and is built from materials that can absorb radar.
The vessel is enormous, at 185m long, but despite this it shows up more like a fishing boat on radar.
All the ship’s main engineering and weapons systems can be controlled from workstations virtually anywhere onboard. Like many of the ship’s systems, weapon storage and loading is fully automated.
This means the USS Zumalt needs a crew of only 148, half that of a similarsized destroyer.
The ship is advanced, but its weapons will be even more so. With sea trials starting this year, it could be fitted with a futuristic rail gun.
These accelerate projectiles to 2,500 metres per second via an electromagnetic rail. There are also plans to use new laser-based weapons that can burn drones out of the sky.
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