It’s already been called a “slab-sided techno-iceberg from the future”, but you can simply call it what the United States Navy intends to eventually call it (it is, after all, their vessel): the USS Zumwalt.

It’s the branch’s newest and most exciting surface warfare ship and, with only a handful on the docket to be built (three) and the convenience of it requiring an extremely small crew to operate (just 60 percent of a normal destroyer), there are plenty of reasons for its star status — it packs enough juice to have railguns, lasers and other future weapons yet to be unfurled.

Here it is racing on the water after it was released from the Bath Iron Works shipbuilding location on the Kennebec River in west central Maine (being prodded and moved by tugboats).