Posted on 11/23/2016 3:17:01 AM PST by Daffynition
BATH, Maine The Bath-built USS Zumwalt, the first-in-class stealth destroyer that left the Bath shipyard on Sept. 7, broke down Monday night while passing through the Panama Canal and was towed by tugs through the locks toward the Pacific Ocean.
The DDG 1000, the first of a class of three destroyers that cost an estimated $22 billion combined, suffered an engineering casualty, the Navy Times reported. The Zumwalt was towed through the locks to Rodman, a former U.S. military base.
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Who tows the tugboats, though?
This never would have happened if the Navy had stuck with sails!!
That bow is reminiscent of pre-dreadnought battleships, IMO.
We’d need a “stealth tug” for the “Zumwalt”.
You are a blowhard, should never have given up oars.
Looks like “highly survivable” doesn’t include seawater leaking from a shaft.
That has been one of my big concerns, the push towards greater automation of damage control and other systems.
Like you said, it is great when you have intact power supplies and infrastructure, but...when power is lost...or a missile takes out a section of wiring.
Sure, you can probably set up patch lines and such, but...that won’t be automated. Someone is going to have to do that.
And what about simply having people who can use timbers and such to plug holes in the hull?
Couple the automation with a higher percentage of female crewmembers who lack the physical strength of their male counterparts, and you have ships sinking when they might be saved.
I think it is a bad idea, and short-sighted. This whole thing is a damned goat rodeo.
They had problems with their propulsion system before...during sea trials if I’m not mistaken, and took on water, also. 22 Billion - should never happen.
Perhaps it should be renamed the USS Hillary Clinton.
Where are all the FR folks making fun a few weeks ago about the Russian carrier needing to sail with a tugboat in its escort.
Sounds like the US Navy is achieving par with the Russian Navy.
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The US Navy claims the hull shows up on radar as being of similar size to a fishing boat, rather than being four times larger than the Isle of Wight ferry. Who knew?
LOL. There's a Pixar movie their somewhere, cute Russian accents and all.
**She cannot take it, Captain Kirk!**
The water intrusion into bearings is a problem in the new LCS ships as well.
I think the ship had sea trials near Bath, Maine.
Bath Iron Works, BIW, makes excellent ships and always on-time or ahead of schedule and no cost over-runs and almost always under budget.
7 Billion 300 million bucks and it can’t even make it through its first oil change. The Navy Yugo?
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