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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Maybe it was built to be a part time clam digger. Sick joke I know but sick ship.
What is best out of three mentioned?
But it is a bad-assed tugboat.
The Navy has a recent history of trying to pack too much new technology into lead ships of a new class. Zumwalt is a case in point; so are the problem-plagued Littoral Combat Ships (LCS) and to a lesser extent, the Ford-class aircraft carrier. When everything works right, it’s a world-beater, but when problems arise, it’s time to break out the tow lines, or in the case of the Zumwalt’s deck gun, sigh and wonder what might have been, if each round didn’t cost more than $1 million.
But there is a ray of sunshine in all of this. Two decades ago, the Navy realized the Seawolf-class SSNs were going to be too expensive and they had their own teething problems. So the best elements of Seawolf were integrated into the Virginia-class boats, which have proven to be an excellent design, and a worthy successor to the Los Angeles-class subs.
Hopefully, technology that works from Zumwalt can be integrated into the advanced DDGs and CGs that will serve with the fleet well into this century. As for LCS, I’m less optimistic. We decided that frigates were obsolete and tried to create a new platform with a troubled engineering/operational history and limited operational capabilities.
*small print disclaimer on contract page 378: "Does not apply to a seawater environment. For land use only."
lol
“....All I can picture is it snuffing its nose on each dip!!.....”
It’s not supposed to rise and go over waves, it’s designed to go straight THROUGH them instead. Because of this, the size of waves won’t matter as the Zoomwalt will cut right through them, Zoom Zoom. /s
Three wise men of Gotham
Went to sea in a bowl.
If the bowl had been stronger,
My song had been longer.
“The Panama Canal is no place for a shake down cruise. This is a radical design and needs to be near home port.”
Have you looked in the White House lately?
Trivia: Bath Works was the most successful stock during the Great Depression.
The ship has 80 missile cells for Standard, Tomahawk, and ASROC missiles. What does it need a fourth kind for?
The GPS guided, rocket-propelled munitions were designed when the Navy had planned to build 32 of the ships and order tens of thousands of rounds of ammunition. Now there will be only three and the order is smaller. Price per round goes up.
No clue: I was USAF. All ships are the same to me: targets. . .
well if that’s the case then id like to see it in the seas I once saw off Hokkaido in ‘84... THe main deck of the St. Loius was 47 feet off the water line and when I walked out to take in the sights that morning I seen a wave cresting 30 feet above my head!! Needless to say I barely made it back in the hatch without getting douched big time!
I did see your /s but thought id share my thoughts anyways.. heavy seas would tear the superstructure off that ship
Sink it and make a useful reef.
That is likely an animation.
But that was back before default Democrat position was Marxist.
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