Posted on 09/07/2015 4:38:42 PM PDT by lbryce
Zumwalt: The Navy's massive, high-tech destroyer is here (pictures) The cutting-edge warship finally enters the water, chockablock with an all-electric integrated power system, an advanced gun system, radar-reflecting angles, and a striking inward-sloping tumblehome hull.
Next-gen Zumwalt-class destroyer General Dynamics Bath Iron Works launched the first of the Navy’s next-generation Zumwalt-class destroyers on Monday at its Bath, Maine, shipyard.
The 610-foot-long ship is chockablock with new technologies including radar reflecting angles, a striking inward-sloping tumblehome hull, an all-electric integrated power system, and an advanced gun system.
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Well the DANG sure don’t build `em like they used to.
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How it’s anti-missle capability? That will be the CHICOM’s anti-ship weapon of choice.
Where is that rail gun going to be installed!
Looks like a pre-dreadnought warship
It slices and dices whales, too!
Looks upside down ?
Looks ugly as crap.
Missiles shouldn’t be a problem. Since the superstructure is made out of ‘composite’ (plastic) the missiles should pass straight through without detonating.
Not a bad model. Were any of the ironclads sunk by enemy action?
ya almost like a type 21 Uboat on steroids. If that railgun really works well, Katy bar the door, this puppy will be the next generation of ship to shore bombardment.
From a couple hundred miles away.
I just hope it performs as well as expected-- I didn't close-in defense systems listed in the armament.
...Missiles shouldn’t be a problem. Since the superstructure is made out of ‘composite’ (plastic) the missiles should pass straight through without detonating...
I’m sure that is reassuring to the crewman standing directly on the other side other side of the impact area and the rest of the crew.
Shhhh! Don’t tell Greenpeace. Maybe the Imperial Japanese Navy will want a few— they like whale sushi, don’t they?
LOL
That’s a “feature”. The enemy will think, “Oh, why bother they already have their heads under.”
The cannonballs will bounce right off the hull!
Did they launch it upside down? ;-)
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