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Navy's largest destroyer leaves for sea trials
Posted on 12/8/15 at 7:44 am
Posted on 12/8/15 at 7:44 am
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Posted on 12/8/15 at 7:46 am to IT_Dawg
Not a battleship
Posted on 12/8/15 at 7:47 am to IT_Dawg
quote:
Navy's largest battleship
No. Largest destroyer.
Posted on 12/8/15 at 7:47 am to IT_Dawg
it's a stealth destroyer
Posted on 12/8/15 at 7:47 am to IT_Dawg
Not me but you are gonna piss some navy guys off by calling that destroyer a battleship.
Posted on 12/8/15 at 7:48 am to IT_Dawg
It's actually looks quite tiny compared to the WWII and cold war era battleships.
ETA: Not a battleship.
ETA: Not a battleship.
This post was edited on 12/8/15 at 7:49 am
Posted on 12/8/15 at 7:52 am to IT_Dawg
Crazy looking. Quite controversial too...we were supposed to get 30-something of them...that's been cut to only 3 now.
Posted on 12/8/15 at 7:53 am to IT_Dawg
The USS Iowa is back?
Posted on 12/8/15 at 7:54 am to IT_Dawg
You're getting your battleships and destroyers mixed up
Posted on 12/8/15 at 7:56 am to Black n Gold
quote:But does it have a rail gun and anti-missile laser array?
Class & type: Zumwalt-class destroyer
Displacement: 14,564 tons[3]
Length: 600 ft (182.9 m)
Beam: 80.7 ft (24.6 m)
Draft: 27.6 ft (8.4 m)
Installed power: Integrated Power System (IPS)
Propulsion:
2 × Rolls-Royce MT30 gas turbines (35.4 MW ea.)[4] driving Curtiss-Wright electric generators[5]
2 × Rolls-Royce RR4500 turbine generators (3.8 MW ea.)[4]
2 × propellers driven by electric motors
Total: 78 MW (105,000 shp)[4]
Speed: 30.3 knots (56.1 km/h; 34.9 mph)
Complement: 142
Sensors and
processing systems:
AN/SPY-3 Multi-Function Radar (MFR) (X-band, scanned array)
Volume Search Radar (VSR) (S-band, scanned array)
Armament:
20 × MK 57 VLS modules, with 4 vertical launch cells in each module, 80 cells total. Each cell can hold one or more missiles, depending on the size of the missiles, including:
RIM-66 Standard
Evolved Sea Sparrow Missile (ESSM)
BGM-109 Tomahawk
RUM-139 Vertical Launch Anti-Submarine Rocket
2 × 155 mm Advanced Gun System
920 × 155 mm total; 600 in automated store + Auxiliary store room with up to 320 rounds (non-automatic) as of April 2005
70-100 LRLAP rounds planned as of 2005 of total
2 × Mk 46 30 mm gun (GDLS)
Aircraft carried:
2 SH-60 LAMPS helicopters or 1 MH-60R helicopter
3 MQ-8 Fire Scout VTUAV
This post was edited on 12/8/15 at 7:59 am
Posted on 12/8/15 at 7:57 am to IT_Dawg
Looks like an old ironclad ship
Posted on 12/8/15 at 7:57 am to IT_Dawg
Captain James Kirk
You can't beat that.
You can't beat that.
This post was edited on 12/8/15 at 7:58 am
Posted on 12/8/15 at 8:02 am to IT_Dawg
Anyone think these sea trials will be like a video game?
Navigate through rings.
Shoot buoys.
Navigate through rings.
Shoot buoys.
Posted on 12/8/15 at 8:03 am to IT_Dawg
They are going to be pissed that they ordered a battleship and got a destroyer.
Posted on 12/8/15 at 8:11 am to IT_Dawg
I've seen these ships in mobile bay. They aren't incredibly big or anything.
Posted on 12/8/15 at 8:12 am to SECSolomonGrundy
quote:
I've seen these ships in mobile bay. They aren't incredibly big or anything.
Uh, this is the first one ever made, and it just launched in Maine... so no, you haven't.
Maybe something similar though.
Posted on 12/8/15 at 8:12 am to IT_Dawg
quote:
The Zumwalt, the first of three ships in the class, will cost at least $4.4 billion.
Unreal. Can't possibly be worth it.
Posted on 12/8/15 at 8:18 am to Bruneaux
quote:
it's a stealth destroyer
How can it be stealth if I can clearly see it?
Posted on 12/8/15 at 8:19 am to Pectus
quote:
Anyone think these sea trials will be like a video game?
Navigate through rings.
Shoot buoys.
Sea-Trials actually suck arse. Lots of testing, tons of engineers on-board asking you to test various operations and equipment.
Posted on 12/8/15 at 8:20 am to IT_Dawg
The Navy is building 3 of these. Originally the plan was to build 32, but cost and the development of anti-ship missiles have made such expensive multipurpose ships obsolete. The Pentagon decided instead to upgrade their conventional Arleigh Burke destroyers, ordering at least 10. The Burkes cost less than a billion each compared to almost 6 billion each for the Zumwalts. (An aircraft carrier costs 13 billion today.)
The original purpose of this ship was to be a shore support gun platform. Unfortunately the Navy tried to cram every type of star wars gizmo onto it, and make it "stealthy", making the cost exorbitant, rather than just taking one of their existing ships and adding better guns and other system improvements-which is what they are going to do with the Burkes, but only after spending many billions of dollars on the Zumwalts. Long range planning does call for another version of the Zumwalts some time in the future, but not until after 2030.
Wikipedia
The original purpose of this ship was to be a shore support gun platform. Unfortunately the Navy tried to cram every type of star wars gizmo onto it, and make it "stealthy", making the cost exorbitant, rather than just taking one of their existing ships and adding better guns and other system improvements-which is what they are going to do with the Burkes, but only after spending many billions of dollars on the Zumwalts. Long range planning does call for another version of the Zumwalts some time in the future, but not until after 2030.
Wikipedia
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