Posted on 07/30/2017 7:29:46 PM PDT by sukhoi-30mki
Tiny radar signatures is a poor strategy when the enemy has satellite coverage. Looks like a fishing boat on radar but like crap piled high and deep in visible spectrum and IR.
Send it an anti ship missile, it has no surface support.
Next...
When the ship you custom designed for a specific job fails, repurpose it to a job it was never designed to do?!
Stupid x 2
“That’s not to say an attack Zumwalt wouldn’t have any escorts at all. As envisaged, the destroyer would lack any active antisubmarine-warfare systems. Like a carrier strike group, one or two nuclear attack submarines could accompany the Zumwalts into combat, screening for undersea threats. The submarines could also launch diversionary attacks against enemy task groups and scout the waters ahead for enemy surface forces.”
Which begs the question, if you already have subs out there why are you sending out a surface ship? What capability are you really gaining here?
Instead, they have proposed but never added the half-baked fire support weapons that never survived the testing process.
I asked my buds at Dahlgren what the LCS was designed to do and they said "to sink in shallow water".
WW2 Demonstrated that even heavily armored battleships were vulnerable to bombs dropped from planes. A mach 2 missile with a thousand pound warhead will kill any ship.
“the retirement of the Iowa-class destroyers”
Iowa class destroyers?
Not much shore support you can do with a pop gun. They should have at least used a 3” so they would have been potentially useful defending the Great Lakes from Canada.
Maybe they can be modified for use by the Coast Guard for interdiction.
You are right of course, just impregnated carbon fiber panels or something similar. Yep, it would be a sail! that is a lot of surface area. I keep looking at the bow, Wouldn’t that nosedive into bigger waves?
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