Posted on 09/10/2016 11:39:20 AM PDT by Mariner
The Navy gave a first look inside the stealthy and futuristic Zumwalt destroyer on Friday during the ship's first port stop at a Rhode Island naval station.
The 610-foot-long warship has an angular shape to minimize its radar signature and cost more than $4.4 billion. It's the most expensive destroyer built for the Navy.
It's headed from Naval Station Newport to Baltimore, where it will be commissioned in October before going to its homeport in San Diego. It was built at Bath Iron Works in Maine.
During a tour, the Navy showed off the ship's bridge, weaponry and mission center.
The USS Zumwalt sits at dock at the naval station in Newport, R.I., Friday, Sept. 9, 2016. The 610-foot-long warship has an angular shape to minimize its radar signature and cost more than $4.4 billion. It's the most expensive destroyer built for the Navy.
In the bridge, there are 180-degree windows and chairs for the ship's captain and executive officer to command the vessel. They overlook two gun mounts that resemble cannon barrels. The Zumwalt's powerful new gun system can unload 600 rocket-powered projectiles on targets more than 70 miles away.
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And what is that device on the bow, forward of the guns?
Like all modern ships, no matter the crew size, they carry so much ordnance that if they take ANY SIZEABLE hit, they cease to exist.
I’ll take both purple-haired girls please. Don’t bother to wrap them.
Not new in naval warfare, see HMS Hood.
>>Like all modern ships, no matter the crew size, they carry so much ordnance that if they take ANY SIZEABLE hit, they cease to exist.
But in a world of nuclear anti-ship and anti-submarine weapons, you can’t build a survivable ship. You have to build one that can overwhelm any attacker and has a formidable array of defenses. Stealth is a big game-changer.
Which is why I would rather money be spent on SSGNs than a light cruiser that they call a destroyer.
I predict terrible morale on this ship. Just a gut feeling.
What does SSGN mean?
Submarine, Guided Missile, Nuclear-Powered
Thank you.
That’s going to be a wet ride in heavy weather!
A sailor walks on the bridge of the USS Zumwalt while at dock at the naval station in Newport, R.I., Friday, Sept. 9, 2016. The 610-foot-long warship has an angular shape to minimize its radar signature and cost more than $4.4 billion. It's the most expensive destroyer built for the Navy. (Michael Dwyer / AP)
Angled sides are one thing but could they not have kept the decks horizontal?
The pessimist in me wonders: what is wrong with it?
She may as well be a submarine.
If they can get them down to $1bil, we'll see a bunch of them.
It all depends upon what defensive systems are in place. I hope that there are passive systems to include chaff and laminated and/or reactive armor. Point defense systems are great, but not perfect. The systems protecting forces in Iraq and Afghanistan are good, but don’t keep everything out.
Or Arizona...
If they deploy the rail guns, there is no explosive propellant so that eliminates the issue with exploding magazines, at least for the naval guns.
Missiles and torpedoes, not so much.
Love that show have it on DVDs think I may toss one in ttoday
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