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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Yes...the Barney was a Norfolk ship as well...but they made the trip anyway for some reason.
I did a Med cruise 87-88 and also did the Caribbean.
Was on the Elliot (Spruance class) out of San Diego at the end of my 6 yr enlistment and did West Pac/Persian Gulf.
More Gulf than West Pac.
Ospreys still have killed fewer people than the CH-46 had by this same stage in its development/service. The CH-46 is a Marine killer.
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