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To: RetiredSWO

The DD-21 Zumwalts with their 6-inch guns, which may eventually be replaced by mass drivers, seem analogous.


226 posted on 07/05/2006 2:49:30 AM PDT by rmlew (I'm a Goldwater Republican... Don Goldwater 2006!)
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To: rmlew

It will be a few years before the Zumwalt class is online.
The gun is going to be 155mm (close to 6") for the "Joint"
classification of the projectiles. The 8" gun originally
designed for the Spruance is still sitting at Dam Neck.

The cargo projectiles be used in the 155mm round are
more efficent killers that the massive 16" projectile.
http://www.vectorsite.net/twbombb.html


253 posted on 07/06/2006 12:49:17 PM PDT by RetiredSWO
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