Ship Photos of the Day – Zumwalt Returns from Snowy Sea Trials

gCaptain ^ | March 25, 2016

[artichokegrower]

The future guided-missile destroyer USS Zumwalt (DDG 1000) returned from Atlantic Ocean on Thursday after completing its second round of sea trials off the coast of Maine.

[artichokegrower]

I still think it looks like the Monitor heading out to look for the Merrimack

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

Looks like an iceberg will want to try and mate with the ship.

[econjack]

Hard to believe this guy is stealthy!

[central_va]

The CSN was way ahead of its time.

[Vermont Lt]

I guess there are those who might think it’s a beautiful ship.

I am not in that camp.

[PGalt]

Interesting. Thanks for posting.

[maddog55]

Looks like a huge flat walled target to me..

[Leaning Right]

Why is every surface ship a Destroyer these days? The Zumwalt looks Cruiser-ish to me.

[Mastador1]

Why is every surface ship a Destroyer these days? The Zumwalt looks Cruiser-ish to me.

because Destroyer sounds so cool and lethal, and well, anything that even sounds like Cruz, especially around here is just to be detested.

[Larry Lucido]

It would appear so.

[SandRat]

It, I know, SHE. .... She looks like an ICEBERG.

[expat_panama]

...a huge flat walled target...

It's not a target if you can't get a lock on it.  Flat surfaces bounce radar off to the side and not back at the enemy.

[prairie dog]

Never could figure out the return to the antiquated ram bow, which the Navy dropped on battleship designs in 1917 in favor of the cruiser bow.

[outofsalt]

I does look like the CSS Virginia

aka Merrimack

[Lx]

[Robert A Cook PE]

Radar reflectivity is reduced for cruise missiles coming in at low altitudes.

But! How will it respond to major storms?

[ichabod1]

YEah. The ironclads were the first thing I thought of when I sawr it.

[Iron Munro]

I guess there are those who might think it’s a beautiful ship.
I am not in that camp.

The naval architects who designed this monstrosity must have been thinking about fighting Star Wars battles in the heavenly ether.

I'm surprised it didn't turn turtle in the fist heavy sea encountered.

[DaveA37]

I’m all Navy but that is one UGLY ship. Hope it fights better than it looks.

[Kenton]

Wow! THAT's a destroyer? I must be in a time warp. Here's the destroyer I rode on back in '69/'70. I feel like a dinosaur.