Posted on 09/08/2016 4:50:39 PM PDT by COBOL2Java
Not an AP photo:
The stealthy destroyer arrived at Naval Station Newport Thursday afternoon.
It left Bath Iron Works in Maine, where it was built, on Wednesday. It’s headed to its commissioning in Baltimore, then to its homeport in San Diego.
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Imperial Star Destroyer ping!!!
That stealthy destroyer looks to be a fine target for non computer enhanced gunnery if it is visible to the eye out there on the sea.
Precisely
I thought the same thing. Why could they not have made it a shorter profile and still stealthy?
the Zum is something-- Jerry Jones may want... 
to buy for the moat he's thinking of digging around ther Deathstar.
It is a tribute to ugly. It is not invisible to eyes or satellites.
Is that the actual destroyer of just a facade? The destroyer is hidden inside?
I can drop a 500 lb mine in the water behind it ... from a fishing boat. Then just wait until it tries to leave the harbor.
Seriously though, it looks ugly, and could have been stealthy and estetic and seaworthy at the same time. (Clipper bow for certain.)
BUT. No smaller ship in ANY navy has EVER survived even a single dud weapons hit since WWII. EVERY destroyer/cruiser size ship in EVERY Navy has been put out of action when even ONE weapon has impacted. (Out of action meaning it lost power, propulsion, control, command, seaworthiness, steering, weapons function or all of the above for periods from tens of minutes of hours to days.)
Subs I understand, it's tough to track them from space once they submerge and reach more than periscope depth but surface ship ?
Search radars and homing radars, fine, the Burke even reduces the effectiveness of those, but I don't think that's the main problem given how huge the oceans are and that the preferred means for finding them are space based and passive equipment on subs or on the seabed.
Maybe I'm just cynical, but every time I hear a DoD say "stealth" I think of them trying to justify spending twice what they should need to get the job done.
Will it change course if an Iranian speedboat approaches?
Assuming that it lacks the capability to locate line of sight enemies on the surface, under the surface and in the air.
A rash assumption.
“In the age of satellites, I don’t get how anything that leaves a wake a mile long can be considered a stealth ship.
Subs I understand, it’s tough to track them
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Subs are just as easy to spot.
Then they’ve much improved since the early nineties which is the last time I had any work with that sort of thing. Figures
That is an interesting fact. Actually it is fascinating if it is true and I am not saying that it isn’t.
I remember seeing a program on “The History Channel” about the battle near the Philippines when the U.S. Destroyers and Destroyer Escorts took on the Japanese fleet of battleships etc.
The U.S.S. Johnson survived several hits from 14 inch battleships before the Japanese figured out what was happening and switched to high explosive shells. It was shot to heck yet kept fighting until it’s last gun was destroyed and it finally sunk.
I sure wish some of those sailors were in the Persian Gulf.
“Is that the actual destroyer of just a facade? The destroyer is hidden inside?”
Lol, I was muttering that it reminds me of cardboard.
“That stealthy destroyer looks to be a fine target for non computer enhanced gunnery if it is visible to the eye out there on the sea.”
If the Zoomy (worst CNO ever) class can’t kill surface targets over the horizon, then everyone connected should be tried for treason.
yes. You’re right.
And “Nope”. You’re dead wrong.
That was a WWII ship, sighting in a WWII war against WWII shells.
I took all “weapons hits” (and dud’s) on every nation’s destroyers and cruiser-sized ships SINCE WWII. There were some 42+ hits. Falklands of course. Also a bunch of USN ships hit by drones, dud bombs, fishing boats, Indo-Pakistan wars, isreali wars, Spanish, UK, etc.
EVERY ship actually hit by ANY weapon was knocked out. Sure, in the Falklands, you remember the ship struck by a dud weapon but burned out and sunk? But there were four otehrs hit by duds and bombs that didn’t sink. But if a dud bomb is sitting LIVE in your ONLY missile launch chamber amidst broken missiles and missile engines and warheads, are you going to be able to launch another missile?
if the “dud” bomb takes out your power and propuslion for 3 hours, can you defend yourself against the next attack wave?
If a dud bomb goes through your helicopter and out the other side of the helo hanger, can that helo take off again against the next submarine attack?
if a fishing boat breaks your keel, does it matter if your electric power is brought back up again to power radars 6 hours later?
Command, control, communications, computers (CIC) and conn (power, propulsion, control). EVERY one of these has been lost in EVERY weapons’ hit. (And several times, a near miss topside put the radar out of commission for months.)
Command, control, communications, computers (CIC) and conn (power, propulsion, control). Lose even ONE of these and the next attack kills you.
Agreed.
If this thing doesn't have the ability to see over the horizon, on the surface, underwater or in the air, it's useless.
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