Posted on 01/26/2019 1:08:28 PM PST by jazusamo
Photos at link.
With slick sides and sharp angles, the Michael Monsoor and its sister ship Zumwalt cut a distinct silhouette along the waters of San Diego.
Unlike a nearby aircraft carrier whose radar juts into the air, the Monsoor’s composite material deckhouse is polygonal and covered with material that can absorb radar waves and increase the destroyer’s stealthiness. Its “tumblehome” hull looks like something you’d see on a ship built before World War I.
Make no mistake, the Monsoor guided-missile destroyer — named after Navy SEAL Michael A. Monsoor, who grew up in Garden Grove and died in 2006 saving the lives of three other SEALS — is one of the U.S. Navy’s most technologically advanced ships. It is to be commissioned Saturday in San Diego.
But developing that cutting-edge technology has proved more difficult than expected, and its deployment has been complicated by a strategic pivot in the ship’s mission.
In the end, what was once intended to be a class of 32 destroyers will now be only three — making for a per-ship cost of about $4.4 billion, according to a December 2016 estimate by the Government Accountability Office, the most recent cost estimate available. Including development costs, that number balloons to $8.2 billion, the GAO said.
After Saturday, the first two ships will be commissioned and then both will be in combat trials, while the third and final ship, the Lyndon B. Johnson, is scheduled for christening in late April.
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Has to be a guided missile destroyer. The main guns aren’t functional.
“Why are all the sailors in camo?”
So if the fall overboard no one will see them.
The cammy for all era is coming to an end. I think it got a little out of hand.
Camo for all works great on prime time TV.
Left idiot programming for idiot viewers.
You mean CSS Virginia.
Just replying in context to the other poster.
thanks
Naming ships after politicians was a mistake, is still a mistake, and will ALWAYS be a mistake.
Whether it’s THEIR politicians or OUR politicians - big, big mistake.
Agree 100%. I am a traditionalist, and think carriers should be Lexington, Hornet, Essex..etc.
Naming destroyers and such after people is fine to me.
Well, me too, up to a point.
But naming a capital ship the USS Ronald Reagan, or the USS George HW Bush, ABSOLUTELY, POSITIVELY GUARANTEES that there will be a USS Barack H. Obama and a USS William J. Clinton.
There's no room for discussion. He who says "A" says "B".
The USS Gerald R. Ford assures the USS Lyndon B. Johnson. The USS Carl Vinson assures the USS Nancy Pelosi.
I mean, how difficult is this to figure out?
I know. Heck, we have long named destroyers after people...which I think is appropriate.
But yes. You are 100% correct though...Hell, the USS Gabby Giffords??????????????????????????????????
Nauseating.
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