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US Navy Launches the Tesla of Destroyers
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| December 7th, 2015
| By The Drive Staff
Posted on 12/22/2015 11:28:09 AM PST by Mariner
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To: Leaning Right
I read somewhere that Congress passed an appropriations law which required Battleships and Cruisers to be nuclear powered. It’s just a way around that restriction. Build an electric motor powered cruiser and call it a destroyer.
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posted on
12/22/2015 2:46:52 PM PST
by
PhiloBedo
(You gotta roll with the punches and get with what's real.)
To: mad_as_he$$
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posted on
12/22/2015 2:47:12 PM PST
by
PIF
(They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
To: Mariner
"That is over 46,000 hp each" Enough to push 15k tons through the ocean at 35-40kts. Probably 45kts for short duration.
Yeah Right. The Clevelands were 14,000 tons with 100000 hp and could do a shade over 32.
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posted on
12/22/2015 4:29:58 PM PST
by
Oztrich Boy
('Life is a comedy to those who think and a tragedy for those who feel' - Horace Walpole)
To: doorgunner69
So they’ll fit wave-motion guns instead.
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posted on
12/22/2015 4:31:13 PM PST
by
Oztrich Boy
('Life is a comedy to those who think and a tragedy for those who feel' - Horace Walpole)
To: Oztrich Boy
“Yeah Right. The Clevelands were 14,000 tons with 100000 hp and could do a shade over 32. “
1. 92,000 kw versus 75,000 kw = 25% more power.
2. NO reduction gears to rob energy
3. MUCH more advanced underwater hull design
To: Oztrich Boy
USN lists their speed at 35kts.
I've never known of an instance when a modern ship would not exceed the max listed speed.
Maybe the hull contributes.
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posted on
12/22/2015 5:09:47 PM PST
by
Mariner
(War Criminal #18 - Be The Leaderless Resistance)
To: miliantnutcase
Already has. Gerald Ford has magnetic cats.
To: tanknetter
USS New Mexico, the Tennessee Class and the Colorado Class Battleships were all turbo electric drive.
To: Terry L Smith
What makes you think it has no guns?
It has two 155 mm/62 caliber
Advanced Gun Systems and two 30mm guns.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zumwalt-class_destroyer
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posted on
12/22/2015 7:27:29 PM PST
by
rmlew
("Mosques are our barracks, minarets our bayonets, domes our helmets, the believers our soldiers.")
To: Blood of Tyrants
To: tbpiper
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posted on
12/23/2015 4:09:20 AM PST
by
Does so
(Europeans had better start "overstaying their visas" in the USA. ==8-O)
To: Ozark Tom
But I still don’t think they keep them in a warehouse waiting for a buyer.
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posted on
12/23/2015 5:53:43 AM PST
by
Blood of Tyrants
(There's a right to gay marriage in the Constitution but there is no right of an unborn baby to life.)
To: rmlew
dear rmlew,
re:
“What makes you think it has no guns?
It has two 155 mm/62 caliber Advanced Gun Systems and two 30mm guns.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zumwalt-class_destroyer"
Why don’t you just use the words ‘rail guns’? Oh, and thanks for being so millenial, and slipping a weblink into your response, instead of typing or thumbing in an answer in your own words.
To: miliantnutcase
dear mili,
re:
“Itâs going to replace the steam catapults on Navy CVNâs as well.”
THAT would be a worthy use for it!
To: Terry L Smith
I am not Generation Y, much less a millennial.
Had you followed the link like an adult, before commenting, you would know that the Zumwalt’s 155mm cannon are not rail guns. These are 6 inch howitzers. Rail guns will be future upgrades.
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posted on
12/24/2015 9:53:29 AM PST
by
rmlew
("Mosques are our barracks, minarets our bayonets, domes our helmets, the believers our soldiers.")
To: rmlew
dear rmlew,
re:
“Had you followed the link like an adult”
If it’s not an article about a B-52, and one preferably that flew from U-Tapao RTNAF, where I was stationed, during the 12 day Christmas Air War of 1972 or Linebacker II, it is a non sequetor.
To: Terry L Smith
If itâs not an article about a B-52, and one preferably that flew from U-Tapao RTNAF, where I was stationed, during the 12 day Christmas Air War of 1972 or Linebacker II, it is a non sequetor. I appreciate the "I was in the US military, therefore I can do no wrong fallacy". George McGovern and Jimmy Carter would approve. I don't care if you had two Congressional Medals of Honor. Benedict Arnold did more for this country in the US military than you did. He was also a TRAITOR.
Grow up. You were lazy and are sputtering around now looking for excuses. Just admit that you decided to write a response before following a link and doing an iota of research, and then got huffy when called on it. I'll settle for an adult "I'm sorry."
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posted on
12/26/2015 5:58:32 PM PST
by
rmlew
("Mosques are our barracks, minarets our bayonets, domes our helmets, the believers our soldiers.")
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