Posted on 10/22/2016 5:32:21 AM PDT by C19fan
Asia's most powerful warship has been shrouded in mystery since construction began last year at the Jiangnan Changxing shipyards. Known as a Type 005 destroyer, the vessel is said to be armed with electromagnetic railguns that can shoot down missiles and attack land targets. Now, leaked images give a glimpse of the battle ship's progress - there appears to be four portals on the stern for sensors and weapons - along with up to 128 vertical launch system cells for missiles.
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It looks no more stealthy than an Arleigh Burke.
Our weapon system acquisition process is terrible. Everything takes forever, costs too much, and usually doesn’t quite do what we had hoped it would do.
Any naval advancement will take time — but the Zumwalt has been in development for about 16 years. We have 1. We will have 3.
The original plan was to have 32 of them, plus an equivalent set of advanced cruisers. But politics gets in the way and we end up with a crippled force that probably could not win a war against a major power. That’s a reflection on leadership, not the people who go in harm’s way.
When are people going to start calling these things Cruisers again?
Another Chinese weapon system paid for with the stupidity referred to as free trade.
It is a knockoff with stolen secrets
...having stolen the original plans from the Confederate government.
Looks like it has hangers for two and a small helicopter pad at the stern close to the water.
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