you can see the lineage
Posted on 10/20/2013 7:09:59 PM PDT by Chode
BATH, ME -- After embarrassing troubles with its latest class of surface warships, the Navy is hoping for a winner from a new destroyer that's ready to go into the water. So far, construction of the first-in-class Zumwalt, the largest U.S. Navy destroyer ever built, is on time and on budget, something that's a rarity in new defense programs, officials said. And the Navy believes the ship's big gun, stealthy silhouette and advance features will make it a formidable package.
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you can see the lineage
pretty much...
she's no carrier, but a ping anyway...
Does it fly the fagflag?
With this thing’s displacement greater than many heavy cruisers, imagine what a modern nuclear battleship would be like? Firing rail guns to accurately nail targets at 115 miles away. Using particle beams to burn anything out of the sky that comes within their range. Probably some equally devastating anti-submarine weaponry.
like Kip said, "It’s a heavy cruiser in all but name."
Yea well, what will they do when aliens come to save us, huh?
like maybe directed ultrasonic or directed current anti-torpedo capability or lasers color tuned for underwater work - things i have thought about now and again...
Would probably not be as expensive as one of the old ones. Wouldn’t need the heavy armor, and not a gazillon tons of ammo. Just pure firepower.
Cruiser Command.. when you can billet an officer to command a Carrier but want them to advance higher than a DDG. You are probably done advancing when you are assigned command of a cruiser.
Will the news cameras be there?
If so, Angus King will throw himself in front of one.
Just like our nation under Zero.
No need to smuggle Al Qaeda goons. Bammy will fly them in and throw a party at the airport VIP lounge.
If it’s that large, it’s not a destroyer. A true destroyer is known by one name only, “tin can”. Destroyers are called “tin cans” for a reason. “Tin can sailors” are proud of their service on destroyers for a reason.
“A destroyer doesn’t roll, it snaps.”
If it’s longer than 170 ft, it’s something other than a destroyer. For over a century, a destroyer’s mission is to carry torpedoes & protect the fleet from enemy submarines.
What’s not to understand?
thankx...
i know what you mean, but it's what the USN calls, so... there we are
The skipper is a Rear Admiral. He wears hot pants.
Excuse me! I'm a “tin can sailor”, spending two years aboard the USS Perkins (DD 877), 1966-68. The Perkins was 391 feet long. It was a World War II vintage ship upgraded to Fram 2 configuration with a DASH helicopter aboard.
My ship went through a typhoon in company with the USS Coral Sea, and believe me we were rocking and rolling and rolling and rolling…
with twin forward mounts even... yup, all USN ships have grown over time regardless of the nomenclature
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