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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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The Lyndon B. Johnson...well, that is marginally better than Harvey Milk.
They hate the military. Still recall when they trashed them after a B-2 did a flyby for the Rose parade.
The ship is named after a true HERO...........
Yep but only slightly, every time I see the turkeys name it irks me.
Bump!
Video of the commissioning ceremony, with the new ship in background
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93CuydS6Lps
Me too.
How can they possibly name a ship after a man who has the BLOOD of several USN types as a result of his handling/not handling the Liberty & Pueblo crises?
Twice that SOB that benefited from the VN war PERSONALLY ordered the US Navy to stand down when they went to rescue BOTH ships.
Now we name a ship after that frigging butthead?
It probably has something to do with him being a president.
Thanks you!
Does the Navy have any ammo for the gun yet?
ray mabus was secnav for 8 years. we should all be relieved that the navy survived at all.
What a turd. The Pueblo Incident has stuck in my craw for many years. My dad was an acquaintance of CDR Bucher, and we lived over in Yokosuka at that time. (My dad was the Security and Communications Officer on the base at that time)
Do they have missiles for these things yet? Last report was we didn’t have enough to arm 1 ship. Another military industrial complex make work project. How much wall does $4.4 billion build?
No, and they’re going to shelve it for now according to article.
Merrimac II ??
Thanks. I won’t give clicks to the LASlimes.
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