Are those pads fore and aft VLS blocks?
Those on the aft are indeed VLS blocks, there are also some in the same configuration as those of the Zumwalt to the fore section of the ship, but I believe you mean the panel on the bow which I removed in an update. I was using a earlier renditions of the Zumwalt class as reference material some of which had a panel on the bow which I now have left out in the new update.