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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.

(Excerpt) Read more at gcaptain.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: alreadyposted; destroyer; doathreadsearch; navy; searchfeature; usszumwalt; zumwalt
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To: null and void

LOL!


41 posted on 09/08/2016 4:53:12 PM PDT by CodeToad
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To: luvbach1

More like the Confederate Ironclad Merrimac I think. Let’s hope it doesn’t meet a similar fate.


42 posted on 09/08/2016 4:53:18 PM PDT by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists Call 'em what you will, they all have fairies livin' in their trees.)
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43 posted on 09/08/2016 5:04:32 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: PapaBear3625

Dadgum, that each one of those guns can fire a round every 6 seconds and a range of 59 miles?

Crusader eat your heart out...


44 posted on 09/08/2016 5:07:59 PM PDT by Molon Labbie (Hillary- Time To Change the Bag...)
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To: BeauBo

Associated Press Photos aren’t allowed.
You may want to ask the mods to remove them.


45 posted on 09/08/2016 5:19:49 PM PDT by deport
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To: deport

I don’t know how to ask to have a photo removed. If you would, I’d appreciate it.

Also, thanks for letting me know. I will steer clear of them (AP photos) in the future.


46 posted on 09/08/2016 5:27:13 PM PDT by BeauBo
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To: deport

P.S.

I hit the “Report Abuse” tab, and asked for it to be removed.

Thanks again.


47 posted on 09/08/2016 5:29:51 PM PDT by BeauBo
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To: rockinqsranch

How much did it depreciate in value after leaving port?


48 posted on 09/08/2016 5:46:43 PM PDT by Redcitizen
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To: drop 50 and fire for effect
15000 tons, sloped hull, two guns. It's a monitor


49 posted on 09/08/2016 5:52:51 PM PDT by Oztrich Boy (NAMBLA to honor Joe Paterno)
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To: BeauBo

Abuse button is the best way I’d guess. If you ever wonder
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50 posted on 09/08/2016 6:50:49 PM PDT by deport
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To: rockinqsranch

integrated power system (IPS).

It uses diesel engines to provide electrical power for propulsion? How is this different than diesel electric propulsion?


51 posted on 09/08/2016 9:24:19 PM PDT by free_life (If you ask Jesus to forgive you and to save you, He will.)
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To: free_life

“How is this different than diesel electric propulsion?”

Beats me. I just assumed it was just another reference for Diesel Electric.

I get confused sometimes when one industry calls something one thing yet another industry calls it something else. Railroads for instance use Diesel electric, but perhaps the military, or the ship building industry calls them IPS. Of course then the submarines use Diesel Electric, so maybe it’s something else. I don’t know.


52 posted on 09/08/2016 9:47:42 PM PDT by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists Call 'em what you will, they all have fairies livin' in their trees.)
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To: free_life

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>> “It uses diesel engines to provide electrical power for propulsion?” <<

Where did you read that?
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53 posted on 09/08/2016 10:29:57 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: Molon Labbie
Dadgum, that each one of those guns can fire a round every 6 seconds and a range of 59 miles?

And they can fire the "smart" Long Range Land Attack Projectile (LRLAP) round, which uses GPS and inertial guidance to hit targets to within 50 meters at the end of that trajectory.

54 posted on 09/09/2016 4:51:29 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (Big government is attractive to those who think that THEY will be in control of it.)
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To: Carthego delenda est
"That would have paid for 8 of these destroyers!"

And the price for each of these would pay for six or seven Burke class destroyers.

No matter how good it is, it can only be in one place at one time, not six or seven places or five places with ship rotation depending on whether it's a wartime or peacetime deployment.

I also don't see how when it comes to defending carriers how it is superior to having four to six Burke class ships sailing with the carrier.

55 posted on 09/09/2016 6:01:22 AM PDT by Rashputin (Jesus Christ doesn't evacuate His troops, He leads them to victory !!)
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To: Rashputin

And the price for each of these would pay for six or seven Burke class destroyers.

I believe that your point is essentially correct, but that the total cost of ownership would probably be quite different. Personnel, Operations and Maintenance costs add up to a lot over the lifecycle. The real cost might be a lot lower or higher than purchase price would indicate.

The big value might have been just keeping the industrial, research and development base from falling apart during the Obama years.


56 posted on 09/09/2016 8:10:01 AM PDT by BeauBo
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To: Rashputin; Carthego delenda est

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>> “I also don’t see how when it comes to defending carriers how it is superior to having four to six Burke class ships sailing with the carrier.” <<

In short, it reduces the required manpower.
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57 posted on 09/09/2016 8:16:28 AM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: editor-surveyor
I know the manpower argument and when you're talking one platform, magic or not, compared to a half dozen, manpower for a half dozen is required or the mission that half dozen would do isn't going to be done.

Carrier battle groups still require multiple ASW and AA platforms with them and from the way anti-ship weaponry is advancing will in fact need more protective ships to accompany them than is currently the norm.

The Navy with ships has the same tendency as the Air Force with aircraft which leads to things like this behemoth for the Navy and continuous attempts by the Air Force to scrap the not sexy workhorse A10 starting from the day they had to accept it because Congress forced it down their throat.

Ships so expensive that in the end twenty three admirals and eighty Captains to command five hundred seamen and other ranks aboard ten ships, ships that they'll desperately try to keep out of harms way, isn't going to work out.

Two of these and a dozen more updated Burkes might make sense but only to the extent that these ships actually do more than serve a plumb assignments for those who the brass know won't put them at risk doing anything more dangerous than bombarding Bimini or some such.

JMHo

58 posted on 09/09/2016 9:01:39 AM PDT by Rashputin (Jesus Christ doesn't evacuate His troops, He leads them to victory !!)
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To: editor-surveyor

In the article, it mentions fuel savings.


59 posted on 09/09/2016 3:23:20 PM PDT by free_life (If you ask Jesus to forgive you and to save you, He will.)
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To: rockinqsranch

I did searches on IPS and it seems to apply to more than one technology.


60 posted on 09/09/2016 3:24:48 PM PDT by free_life (If you ask Jesus to forgive you and to save you, He will.)
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