To: Onthebrink
Zumwalts are over 50% bigger and twice the price as the current Arleigh Burke class destroyers.
The question is: what can Zumwalts do which Arleigh Burkes can't?
![](https://laststandonzombieisland.files.wordpress.com/2016/06/destroyer-history-american.jpg)
5 posted on
12/27/2020 7:22:17 AM PST by
BroJoeK
((a little historical perspective...) )
To: BroJoeK
The one thing they can do way better than any other ship in the fleet is play semi-submersible in a medium sea with that tumblehome prow.
6 posted on
12/27/2020 7:32:40 AM PST by
Don W
(When blacks riot, neighbourhoods and cities burn. When whites riot, nations and continents burn.)
To: BroJoeK
![See the source image](https://cdn2.americancivilwar.com/americancivilwar-cdn/pictures/CSS_Virginia_3.jpg)
![See the source image](https://news.usni.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/161208-N-OR184-0044.jpg)
Updated Merrimac.
7 posted on
12/27/2020 7:41:19 AM PST by
chief lee runamok
(Anti Socialist Derelict at Large)
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