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The U.S. Navy’s Largest, Most Expensive, and Most Advanced Destroyer Ever Leaves Shipyard
gcaptain ^
| September 8, 2016
| Mike Schuler
Posted on 09/08/2016 3:26:17 PM PDT by rockinqsranch
The future USS Zumwalt (DDG 1000), the largest and most technologically advanced destroyer ever built for the U.S. Navy, has departed Bath Iron Works shipyard where it has been under construction for more than half a decade.
At a total of cost of nearly $4 billion, the DDG 1000 is also the most expensive destroyer ever built for the U.S. Navy.
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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: alreadyposted; destroyer; doathreadsearch; navy; searchfeature; usszumwalt; zumwalt
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To: rockinqsranch
How long before the Iranians are buzzing it?
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posted on
09/08/2016 3:27:25 PM PDT
by
outofsalt
( If history teaches us anything it's that history rarely teaches us anything)
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To: Magnum44
Sure looks like a big target, at least visually .
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posted on
09/08/2016 3:34:33 PM PDT
by
IVAXMAN
To: rockinqsranch
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posted on
09/08/2016 3:34:56 PM PDT
by
CivilWarBrewing
(Females DESTROYED America.)
To: Magnum44
Not trying to be super critical, but do the vertical weld lines on the side of the ship below/around the second front turret look concerning to anyone else?
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posted on
09/08/2016 3:39:04 PM PDT
by
Secret Agent Man
(Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
To: Magnum44
To: Magnum44
Former ARMY MP here. I’ll leave it to you Navy guys to do those assessments.
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posted on
09/08/2016 3:40:10 PM PDT
by
rockinqsranch
(Dems, Libs, Socialists Call 'em what you will, they all have fairies livin' in their trees.)
To: rockinqsranch
That’s so cool that Obama will have another expensive ship that he will have run away from Iranian tiny and cheap boats!
To: rockinqsranch
Eh. Russian billionaire already has one and he is selling it.
To: castlegreyskull
It’s actually armed out the teeth. Nasty stuff.
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posted on
09/08/2016 3:44:16 PM PDT
by
piytar
(http://www.truthrevolt.org/videos/bill-whittle-number-one-bullet)
To: Secret Agent Man
Nope. Modular construction. Those weld lines are actually stronger than the plates on each side of them.
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posted on
09/08/2016 3:45:21 PM PDT
by
piytar
(http://www.truthrevolt.org/videos/bill-whittle-number-one-bullet)
To: School of Rational Thought
What's old is new again...
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posted on
09/08/2016 3:48:39 PM PDT
by
IVAXMAN
To: piytar
I was just kidding. Because the picture shows everything somewhat hidden. It won’t be long before they have lasers. I believe this one has a rail gun.
To: IVAXMAN
Actually it has a very small radar cross section. It looks big to the but is nearly invisible to radar.
If the USN gets the EM-rail gun installed on it then it can be ugly and weird looking and those words will become synonyms for scary and mean.
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posted on
09/08/2016 3:50:12 PM PDT
by
Fai Mao
To: castlegreyskull
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posted on
09/08/2016 3:53:18 PM PDT
by
ASA Vet
(Jus Soli + Jus Sanguinis = NBC)
To: castlegreyskull
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posted on
09/08/2016 3:54:13 PM PDT
by
PapaBear3625
(Big government is attractive to those who think that THEY will be in control of it.)
To: castlegreyskull
The rail-gun is going on the LBJ in 2019.
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posted on
09/08/2016 3:55:01 PM PDT
by
Despot of the Delta
(It's time for Trump to become Vlad the Impaler. I want Progressive/Globalist/Establishment heads)
To: rockinqsranch
That thing is a destroyer in name only. It has the size and weapons of a cruiser. It should be named and labeled as such.
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posted on
09/08/2016 3:55:30 PM PDT
by
drop 50 and fire for effect
("Work relentlessly, accomplish much, remain in the background, and be more than you seem.)
To: Secret Agent Man
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posted on
09/08/2016 3:56:11 PM PDT
by
Delta 21
(Patiently waiting for the jack booted kick at my door.)
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