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Look at this new US Navy bad boy.
Posted on 4/14/14 at 10:12 am
Posted on 4/14/14 at 10:12 am
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The US Navy on Saturday christened the first of its newest class of destroyers – the more than $3 billion (£1.8 billion), 610-foot (186-metre)-long USS Zumwalt.
Named after the late Admiral Elmo “Bud” Zumwalt, the warship sports advanced technology and a stealthy shape designed to minimise its visibility on enemy radar and reduce the size of its crew.
Among the 15,000-tonne destroyer's cutting-edge features are a composite deckhouse with hidden radar and sensors and an angular shape that officials say will allow it to be confused for a small fishing boat on radars. It also has a wave-piercing hull designed to reduce the ship's wake.
It's the first US ship to use electric propulsion and produces enough power to one day support the futuristic electromagnetic rail gun, which will be tested at sea in 2016.
Rail guns fire a projectile at six or seven times the speed of sound – enough velocity to cause severe damage. The Navy sees them as replacing or supplementing old-school guns.
In the future, it could also be fitted with even more advanced weaponry. This summer, the US Navy plans to test the viability of a laser weapon device in the Persian Gulf. It will be used to shoot down aerial drones at ultra-low cost – it is thought one shot of laser will cost about $1.
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Posted on 4/14/14 at 10:16 am to GumboPot
We've come a long way since the Monitor and the Merrimac, huh?
Posted on 4/14/14 at 10:18 am to GumboPot
dayum.
Posted on 4/14/14 at 10:20 am to Homesick Tiger
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We've come a long way since the Monitor and the Merrimac, huh?
Yeah, but this ship is strangely reminiscent of those.
Posted on 4/14/14 at 10:20 am to GumboPot
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Among the 15,000-tonne destroyer's cutting-edge features are a composite deckhouse with hidden radar and sensors
Hope this try at it works better than the first attempt. Navy had to scrap that one because what was supposed to make it's radar undetectable to other ships, also made it's radar undetectable to the ship itself.
Posted on 4/14/14 at 10:25 am to GumboPot
I'm fully aroused
makes me want to reenlist. i spent my Navy days on a sub that was commissioned in 1968...and i'm only 39 years old
makes me want to reenlist. i spent my Navy days on a sub that was commissioned in 1968...and i'm only 39 years old
This post was edited on 4/14/14 at 10:28 am
Posted on 4/14/14 at 10:25 am to Azranod
This could be a problem with future ammo contractors:
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it is thought one shot of laser will cost about $1.
Posted on 4/14/14 at 10:29 am to GumboPot
Posted on 4/14/14 at 10:30 am to upgrayedd
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We've come a long way since the Monitor and the Merrimac, huh?
Yeah, but this ship is strangely reminiscent of those.
My thought as well.
Posted on 4/14/14 at 10:39 am to GumboPot
It was an odd looking ship, the whole mast was encased. Worked way better than they had thought it would.
Posted on 4/14/14 at 10:44 am to GumboPot
Posted on 4/14/14 at 10:46 am to Azranod
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because what was supposed to make it's radar undetectable to other ships, also made it's radar undetectable to the ship itself.
Posted on 4/14/14 at 10:48 am to GumboPot
Posted on 4/14/14 at 10:48 am to Lakeboy7
For those who were asleep during American History class.
Posted on 4/14/14 at 11:11 am to GumboPot
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It's the first US ship to use electric propulsion and produces enough power to one day support the futuristic electromagnetic rail gun, which will be tested at sea in 2016.
Really? Futuristic? They were working on rail guns when I was deployed in 2002-2003!
Posted on 4/14/14 at 11:20 am to GumboPot
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15,000-tonne
That's a big-arse destroyer. Have destroyers been getting biggerin the last few decades? This thing is as big as what used to be called a light cruiser.
Posted on 4/14/14 at 11:35 am to FightinTigersDammit
That's a 9 billion dollar ship with two more due soon.
Posted on 4/14/14 at 11:37 am to asurob1
The article says 3 billion.
Posted on 4/14/14 at 11:41 am to GumboPot
I may have worked on some of the components a few years ago in STL. They were designed to reflect radar signals in a screwy manner of which we were informed, they would be on the main deck if true.
Posted on 4/14/14 at 11:47 am to Azranod
quote:That's how it's always been. You know the pretty new F-22 Raptors that were introduced in 2005? The first one was flown in 1997.
Really? Futuristic? They were working on rail guns when I was deployed in 2002-2003!
The F-22 program started in 1981.
So they started in 1981 and it was finally introduced in 2005... that's 24 years later.
Just imagine the crazy-arse stuff they're working on right now that will be introduced 24 years later in 2038...
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