[C19fan]

At 14,000 tons displacement that Type 005 is more in line with the new Zumwalt and is 50% heavier than the Arleigh Burke. 128 VLS cells is 50% more than the Arleigh Burke and Zumwalt. Over/under on % of components stolen from the West?

[Fai Mao]

It looks no more stealthy than an Arleigh Burke.

[ClearCase_guy]

Our weapon system acquisition process is terrible. Everything takes forever, costs too much, and usually doesn’t quite do what we had hoped it would do.

Any naval advancement will take time — but the Zumwalt has been in development for about 16 years. We have 1. We will have 3.

The original plan was to have 32 of them, plus an equivalent set of advanced cruisers. But politics gets in the way and we end up with a crippled force that probably could not win a war against a major power. That’s a reflection on leadership, not the people who go in harm’s way.

[Little Ray]

When are people going to start calling these things Cruisers again?

[TwelveOfTwenty]

Another Chinese weapon system paid for with the stupidity referred to as free trade.

[dila813]

It is a knockoff with stolen secrets

[onedoug]

...having stolen the original plans from the Confederate government.

[PAR35]

capable of carry numerous helicopters

Looks like it has hangers for two and a small helicopter pad at the stern close to the water.