Posted on 07/30/2017 7:29:46 PM PDT by sukhoi-30mki
How long would this thing last from a land based anti-ship missile?
I imagine a helicopter on the stern would hurt it’s stealthiness.
Already posted here with a different headline. Interestingly enough, both links still head to the respective headlines.
The U.S. Navy’s Stealthy Zumwalt Class Destoyer: America’s New ‘Pocket’ Battleships?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3573255/posts
Ah.I see the problem. You didn’t link to the named source, but rather to someone’s blog “scout.com military warrior”
With appropriate comments on the author’s “Iowa class destroyers”
The writer proves he’s an idiot at either link - or the various editors are trying successfully to make him look like one.
I made a comment on another thread about this vessel. I made the comment that this thing looks like it would double as a submarine in high seas. I was jesting because it looks top heavy and possibly unstable in 25 footers, and It looks like the bow will dive under.
But this picture and the more I look at it... I wonder if it might be submersible also? Could it actually be a submarine?
Oops, will ask for it to be pulled down.
Does it have any small weapons to ward off say, Iranian speedboats?
Fixing these is as impractical as fixing Obamacare. Littoral ships just haven’t worked out.
Or we could make a school of limpet mines with silicone suckers and tiny cameras that can swim like a cuttlefish until they find hulls to stick to ...and guide the school into targets from a remote location...
It sure looks unstable in rough seas...
Or go the cheap route and launch liberals at them ...they are hard headed enough to put a good ding in an Iranian warship... we have plenty to spare, and they are biodegradable.
Huh?
They should develop some suicide drones for that.
Does N. Korea have large numbers of attack speedboats too?
Don’t think those solid looking areas up high are as solid and “heavy” as they appear, I imagine it’s mostly just panels to reduce the amount of reflection they would otherwise get from masts and framework supporting a bridge, etc., that they cover, so there is likely a lot of air space within. The weight is going to be below, like a conventional ship.
Now, I would wonder how it would handle in hurricane force winds with all that surface area.
It’s one thing to reduce radar signature but you also have to reduce heat emissions so you have to shield hotspots, too.
Maybe we could help pay for the things by selling companies billboard space on them. There’s lots of that!
Hey!
Let’s build thin skinned aluminum warships instead of those clunky, heavy old style ships with thick armor plating!
We’ll make it faster and more maneuverable so it can outrun those Mach-2 ship killer missiles.
/s
Not if it's a Ninja Stealth Helicopter®
No, but it will have a couple of LCS with SuW package screening it
What happened with the railgun system that used solid shot projectiles (extremely cheap) and had ranges in the hundreds of miles?
Don’t need 155 mm howitzers with RAP rounds on ships, we have M109s that carry out that mission just fine.
Sounds like a plan. LOL
We can make them remote controlled too.
“new role of stealthy ship killer”... Uhhh you mean a submarine? I much rather take on a Chinese battle group in and old Los Angeles class than in that overpriced tin target.
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