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Zumwalt: The Navy's massive, high-tech destroyer is here (pictures)
CNet ^ | September 7, 2014 | US NAVY

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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TOPICS: Government; Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: boondoggle; destroyer; pos; wasteofmoney
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To: freedumb2003
Touche! I tool longer than that trying to find a good photo of the LoEG Nautilus that showed the similar lines.

You underestimate the Nautilus. You underestimate her greatly. ;)

61 posted on 09/07/2015 8:27:04 PM PDT by anymouse (God didn't write this sitcom we call life, he's just the critic.)
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To: pierrem15

The engines are electric that’s why they are rated in that way. This ship generates a lot of excess electricity in anticipation of being fitted with a rail-gun or possibly a laser air defense system. They also did this for every aircraft carrier built since “USS Ronald Reagan”.

When you’re building ships designed to serve for over 50 years you have to anticipate future weapons systems that could conceivably be mounted.


62 posted on 09/08/2015 3:18:56 AM PDT by Tallguy
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To: chrisinoc
Just viewed the USS Cairo in the Vicksburg National Military Park today. The Cairo looks like a larger version. It was sunk by a Confederate torpedo (mine) in 1862.

I've always been fasciated by the Civil War ironclads. 150 year old technology. Before the invention of incandescent lighting or electric motors. Amazing display of technology for that day.

63 posted on 09/08/2015 5:14:36 AM PDT by Flick Lives (One should not attend even the end of the world without a good breakfast. -- Heinlein)
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To: lbryce
The pictures shown at the site are from at or right after its christening in April 2014.

They have made a LOT of progress since:

See my Flickr Album for a bunch of more recent pictures:

DDG-1000 Zumwalt Flickr Album

Either late this year, or early in 2015, she will go to sea for her sea trials. That will be something to look forward to.

64 posted on 09/08/2015 6:15:56 AM PDT by Jeff Head (Semper Fidelis - Molon Labe - Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: lbryce
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.

They're going to build another one?

65 posted on 09/08/2015 9:01:14 PM PDT by Oztrich Boy (Palins are better parents than Clintons.)
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To: CivilWarBrewing

I just want it used on Chinese


66 posted on 09/08/2015 10:16:17 PM PDT by lbryce (OBAMA:Misbegotten, GodForsaken, Bastard offspring of Satan and Medusa)
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