Posted on 01/12/2022 6:00:53 PM PST by MAGA2017
ARLINGTON, Va. – The Navy wants its next warship to fire hypersonic missiles and lasers that would be ten times more powerful than the service’s existing laser weapons, according to the most detailed outlook to date of the DDG(X) next generation warship issued by the service.
The warship, the largest the Navy’s attempted in more than 20 years, is designed to provide the service with the power to drive a new generation of directed energy weapons and high-power sensors that will follow the Navy’s current fleet of Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyers. The warship is estimated to start construction in 2028, the Navy told USNI News last year.
“Capabilities that we’re going to need for the 21st century to continue combating the threat are increased missile capability sensor growth, directed energy weapons, which actually require a lot of power, increased survivability and increased power availability,” deputy program manager Katherine Connelly said at a Wednesday briefing at the Surface Navy Association symposium.
The Navy is developing the DDG(X) using the combat system developed from the Flight III Arleigh Burkes that incorporated the new SPY-6 air search radar and the Baseline 10 Aegis combat system.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.usni.org ...
2028
6 years from now
We only have 9 years left before its all over
Not sure why we’re planning for anything that far out
Most importantly, will there be designated safe spaces? The ship itself looks pretty nice for a rendering.
Here’s to hoping the first generation of hypersonic naval weapons have a better track record than our early WWII Mark 14 torpedoes.
Can it avoid freighters?
The LGBTQ+IA crew will wreck it into something first day out.
They should want their future ships to have ultra hypersonic missiles and lasers 100x more powerful. Amateurs.
Sharks with friggin lasers?
Bath Iron Works will be ready!
I suppose they won’t be looking like such a leap like the Zumwalts. But a laser-based defense shield seems so advanced. Especially without a nuclear power source.
The DD(X) will be one heck of a ship!
I hope these new destroyers are better designed and built than the LCS has been.
I hope it’s not the same engineers and naval architects that designed the Gerald Ford. The buzzers and bells need to work.
> The Navy wants its next warship to fire hypersonic missiles ... <
Each shell for the USS Zumwalt‘s cannon reportedly costs $800,000, making them too expensive to fire for practice. I wonder how much each of those hypersonic missiles will cost.
Jet turbines can crank out a lot of power. The main benefit of nuclear power is not providing more electricity at peak need, it provides power for years without refueling. The Ford class carriers could probably sail 30 years without refueling - that’s millions of miles of going anywhere you want.
They would however need refueling for the planes - unless we have secret black nuclear-powered military aircraft that we haven’t told anyone about.
"If you have to ask, you can't afford it."
I’m assuming that instead of that dreary camouflage paint scheme they will be painted pretty & pink and have flower gardens on the decks...
You don’t need a nuclear power source. You store the energy in a large battery and as the battery is drained the windmills on the back will replenish them.
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