U.S. Navy gives look inside futuristic $4.4 billion Zumwalt destroyer

AP via Chicago Tribune ^ | September 10th, 2016 | Contact Reporter

[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.

[al baby]

nice torpedos

[ncalburt]

This is a rip off of the US civil war ship

USS Ironclad

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[DesertRhino]

I want to know the logic in having sailors wear blue digital camo BDUs. Man overboard really shouldn’t try to blend in with water.

Our navy at work.

[Petrosius]

Note to the Secretary of the Navy:

If the enemy is close enough that the sailors need to wear camouflage then they are close enough to see the boat.

Sailors should be proud to be sailors and not have to ape the camouflage uniforms of the Army and the Marines.