... and a ram bow.
LOL! I thought “dreadnought” as soon as I saw the photo.
Fine and dandy if this thing is going hunting on its own... but they rarely do.
And the vessels it will be keeping company with are huge radar targets.
Time was when destroyers were "The Expendables" of the fleet.
At $7 billion per copy, I guess that strategy has changed...
LOL! I thought “dreadnought” as soon as I saw the photo.
aka the Elmo
Looks like an above sea submarine, guess with good reason, it’s an ironclad. Impressive, frightening looking monster. Rather Titanic-like, though.
It looks like this ship also has superfiring guns. I don’t think the US has built a ship with these since the 50s.
They should have called it the USS Monitor.
First thing I thought of was the submarine ride at Disneyland. This is probably a little bit more expensive, though.
$7 billion, but not enough left over to buy a flag?
The hull form reminds me a lot of the 36-knot post-WWI Italian light cruisers. Pronounced tumblehome and a wave-cutting bow. They were wet but stable and the fastest cruisers in the world at that time.
Our current destroyers can fire up to 128 Tomahawk missiles - some improvement!
They are more like $3.5 billion a piece. The R&D for the Radars, the PVLS, and numerous other technological innovations will be used on many other platforms so are not rightly ammortized over these three vessels alone.