I think they can do way more with phased arrays than people realize.
Posted on 12/22/2015 11:28:09 AM PST by Mariner
Seagoing Tesla? Does that mean they have to stop somewhere and plug it in every night? It needs an entire new drivetrain every 60K miles?
Well, at least the contractors are happy and the Admirals are assured of “no show” retirement jobs. After all, isn’t that what it’s all about?
dear mili,
re:
“Say what you want about sea-worthiness, but do not discredit the firepower of this ship. it’s a monster.”
If you actually thinki that my questions, i.e.:
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Having rail guns might be the future, and leaves a question or two.
Has anyone REALLY looked into how much ‘power from the plug’ is needed for a functioning rail gun on a sea-going vessel?
Has anyone really looked into the ‘residual’ amount of electro-magnetic radiation coming from that thing? I’d hate to be the poor tech getting near that, if and when it malfunctions (no kids for you).”
are a ‘discredit’, then you have no understanding of electro-mechanical engineering, nor the maintenance tasks involved with such kind of a system.
The ‘rail gun’ has been a subject of discussion, research and development since the LATE 1970’S!!!
It has been called ‘a mass driver’, and was considered as a means of projecting mined lunar ore to an orbiting vessel, to transport back to Earth. It has been mutated to drive a transportation rail car (mag-lev) designed by General Dynamics in the 1980’s.
It has been considered as a form of ‘spatial artillery’ for future space designs.
Yet, in any timeframe of ‘now’, and the future of ‘tomorrow’, I still pity the poor tech slob who has to maintain and repair that system .. again, ‘no kids for you’.
How do i know? A nasty little secret of any military avionics package. It contains a radioactive tube that is powered to ionize and block the unwanted returning radar energy from frying the receiver circuits in the moments when the radar set is transmitting, for that pulsed moment.
ergo ... no kids for you.
I think they can do way more with phased arrays than people realize.
Ship will likely be ready for scrap by the time they get a deployable rail gun ready. How many decades has the development been going on now?
Maybe.
But the USN will test fire a full sized one early next year off the coast of FLA...at a moving target.
I'm better it's very, very loud.
This classification thing puzzles me. Why call this ship a Destroyer? Why not call it a Light (or Heavy) Cruiser? Does it have something to do with the ship's range?
I agree.
“Yeah, probably 16 on, 8 off, 7x24x365.”
But look at that thing. No leisure spaces to catch some rays on the deck. It looks like submarine duty without the benefits with submarine duty.... Just had another thought. Obama will probably ensure that some drag queen or openly homosexual lesbian couple will be placed in a mid level authority position to really keep the crew angry.
I have a buddy who was just released from his highly classified research job here in town. It was so classified that he wouldn’t even say if he was working for Sandia Labs, Los Alamos Labs, or the Air Force Research Lab.
In our conversations over the years it was pretty clear he was working on something having to do with rail guns and lasers. Targeting? I have no idea.
Anyway, when he told me he had been released, I asked if the program had been cancelled.
“No. We’re done.”
And then, not too much longer after, the Big Z is launched.
Methinks they are closer to railguns then they are letting on.
been there, done that.
The guns are under the two humps.
The stern has a nice fishing platform/helipad for all your recreational needs.
Wrong ship.
Railgun is a stand off over the horizon weapon.
http://www.cnet.com/news/futuristic-navy-railgun-with-220-mile-range-closer-to-reality/
It’s going to replace the steam catapults on Navy CVN’s as well.
Enough already!
It baffles me too.
Even the Burke class at 10k tons qualifies as a Cruiser by historical definition. And mission.
The Navy had some turboelectric drive Battleships following WWI, and the Lexington class carriers, built on Battlecruiser hulls were turboelectric
The Zumwalts aren’t the first turboelectric surface combatants, only the latest.
NO!
Sorry one of the problems posting from a phone - limited visibility down thread.
There were supposed to be two ships using a common hull: a land attack destroyer to replace the Spruances and an Aegis cruiser to replace the Ticos.
Only the DD (Zumwalt) got built.
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