Posted on 12/19/2016 6:04:42 AM PST by sukhoi-30mki
Zumwalt was the first PC CNO and a disaster while doing it. No reason to believe this ship burdened with his name won’t be the same.
Did they fix the leaking prop shaft?
Stop buying BioFuel and buy real fuel and you’ll save billions right there
Thank you!
Nice!
The M982 Excalibur (previously XM982) is a 155 mm extended range guided artillery shell developed by Raytheon Missile Systems and BAE Systems AB. It is a GPS-guided munition capable of being used in close support situations within 150–75 metres (492–246 ft) of friendly troops. The United States plans to procure 7,474 rounds at a FY2015 program cost of $1,934.1m ($258,777 average cost per unit). As of September 2015, nearly 770 Excalibur shells had been fired in combat.[
The 1000 does not have a rail gun, nor is it planned to. It’s planned for 1001 and 1002 and maybe retrofit 1000 later.
Yep the ship arrived in San Diego over a week ago.
Lockheed Martin claimed the artillery round would cost "less than $50,000 each"—an absolute bargain. By November 2016, the cost per-round had ballooned to $800,000.
That's a whole lot'a BOHICA!
Guess Ike was right...
[Eisenhower’s “Military- Industrial Complex” Speech]
Origins and Significance
US National Archives
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gg-jvHynP9Y
Who armed ISIS?
>>A M777 self-propelled howitzer with 1st Battalion, 12th Marines fires an M982 Excalibur round in Afghanistan, 2011. Department of Defense photo.
Anyone with half a clue about artillery would recognize that as a towed howitzer, not self-propelled. Heck, I know that, and have never been anywhere near Fort Sill, nor ever served in the Army or Marines.
You’re kidding, right? Guided missiles are a lot more expensive than artillery rounds.
Our Marine Nephew served two Tours in Afghanistan assigned to Artillery. I remember him telling me about how amazing the Excalibur Guided Round was.
He came home, graduated College and started a great Job.
A Month later he died in a Motorcycle Accident after some moronic Woman made a left turn in front of him at a Traffic Light. He was killed instantly.
According to the article, not necessarily, when talking guided rounds. And the transport and launch hardware is a lot cheaper. An artillery round has to be constructed to withstand the high "G" forces of gun launching, which is probably what is driving the expense. G forces for a missile are much less (and hence less expensive to build).
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