Posted on 10/24/2020 8:49:21 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The US Navy destroyer USS Zumwalt fired a missile for the first time during a recent weapons test, the Navy announced Monday.
The Zumwalt, a first-in-class stealth destroyer, test-fired an SM-2 missile from the ship's launcher last Tuesday at the Naval Air Weapons Center Weapons Division Sea Test Range in Point Mugu, California.
The Zumwalt was commissioned in 2016, but it was not delivered to the Navy with a functional combat system until earlier this year.
While the Zumwalt program has faced a number of significant setbacks, including cost overruns and major delays, a big issue was the ship's main guns — the two 155mm guns of the Advanced Gun System.
When the Navy reduced its order from roughly thirty ships to just three, the cost of the rounds shot up. A single round of the Long-Range Land Attack Projectile was going to cost almost $1 million — a figure closer to guided missiles than artillery shells.
And that wasn't the only problem with the guns. Vice Adm. William Merz, then the deputy chief of naval operations for warfare systems, told Congress in 2018 that the guns also lacked the desired range. "We just cannot get the thing to fly as far as we want," he said, adding that the Navy was considering getting rid of the guns altogether.
The Navy was ultimately forced to reevaluate the combat system and change the ship's mission. Instead of naval fire support for ground units, the ship has been retasked to an anti-ship combat role.
In May, following the destroyer's delivery to the fleet, the Zumwalt test-fired the 30 mm mark 46 MOD 2 Gun Weapon System, a remotely-operated, high-velocity naval cannon for taking out small, high-speed surface threats, for the first time.
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I’ve always wondered: Why can’t ships go faster? Is it simply friction and surface tension? I guess so. Those cigarette racers go fast as blazes and scarcely touch the surface as they reach top speed. How fast can a submarine go? Has anyone successfully used cavitation on ocean-going vessels?
The Navy's Stealth Destroyer Has Fired A Missile For The First Time
After over $26B spent on the program, the launch serves as a glimmer of hope that the tiny Zumwalt class may one day live up to its potential.
ByJoseph Trevithick October 19, 2020
BTW you do know that Forbes is owned by the Chinese?
they have guns that dont have much range, shells that cost half as much as a missile Each, a bow design that is unstable in heavy seas, engines that are very unreliable and a lot less fire power than a CG, but about the same size. Scrape the damn thing.
We could tell you, but we really would have to kill you...
What a Charlie Foxtrot.
Why build even a single one?
Prior to retirement, I worked on this disaster of a program. I believe that the only reason it survives is because of the political pull that Lockheed-Martin has.
No. It's wavemaking - of surface waves. The reason that cigarret racers can go fast is that they plane on the surface of the water thus putting much less energy into wavemaking.
Because submerged submarines are submerged they don't make surface waves and so they can go faster for the same horsepower. On the surface most subs are limited to speeds less than 15 knots because of surface wave making again. The shape is horrible for that purpose
The superstructure looks like a casemate ironclad.
Because the cost to cancel the contract was the same as the cost of building 3 of them.
If you were told, you wouldn't believe it.
Hull speed is dependent on the amount of water it displaces and how fast a wave can move through that much water.
Animagraffs calls this thing a “deestroyer.”
If they can’t spell, should one wonder about the accuracy of the rest of the info?
I know some folks here will call me a grammar Nazi, but I’m becoming convinced that we are living in Idiocracy.
I seem to remember some crazy stuff going on with the guns for this Destroyer.
Why not?
Mo’ Nature makes a pretty impressive design:
https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/fastest-fish.html
Displacement vessels (ships, sailboats) are limited in speed by the length of their water line. Planing vessels (speed boats, catamarans) are not.
One reason Germany lost WW 2 is that they were obsessed with making complicated, high-tech devices while everyone else was making reliable, lower-tech devices.
Just sayin’.
‘Hull speed is dependent on the amount of water it displaces and how fast a wave can move through that much water.”
‘Hull Speed’ is determined by water-line length. Hull speed or displacement speed is the speed at which the wavelength of a vessel’s bow wave is equal to the waterline length of the vessel.
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