The Navy Thinks This New $7 Billion Ship Is The Answer To All Its Chinese Concerns

The hull armor on the IOWA Class had a belt that was a tad over 12 inches, but the armor on top of the 16 inch turrets and that surrounding the ‘citadel’ was 16 inches thick.

"In 2008, Vice Adm. Barry McCullough, redefined these capabilities out of existence with Potomac spin. "

How it it "Potomac Spin" to say "Look, anti-air won't work here"? That's not spin, that's a flat out statement of lack of capabilities. The spin is coming from Raytheon. And it can't do BMD, because again, space constraints prevent the version of AN-SPY3 going into Zumwalt to do everything that a "full" SPY3 system could do. From the Wikipedia page for the system:

It can combine the functions of up to five radars and ten antennas.

Notice the up to part. From what I've read in professional Naval blogs, the problem is that Zumwalt's "island" just doesn't have enough room to pack all of the needed electronics into a fully capable SPY3 package.

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