The $7 billion dollar warship being built to maintain American naval supremacy over China

The Daily Mail ^ | 12 April 2012

[sukhoi-30mki]

What you get for $7 billion dollars: A guide to the USS Zumwalt's unique features

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[Mariner]

This is little more than a silly-assed waste of money when good designs are available NOW at $500mil a copy.

[ThunderSleeps]

On paper each of the powerful vessels costs $3.8 billion a piece, but with research and development costs thrown in the full bill is nearer to $7 billion.

Of course if you build more of them, then you amortize the R&D costs over more ships and the per-ship cost goes back down.

[Jeff Head]

Here's my page reagrding the Zumwalts.

I hope we build more than the three. The decision to cut the numbers drastically is why the cost has run up. A lot of new expensive technology now spread out over only three ships.

DDG 1000, USS ZUMWALT

[mylife]

Bath Iron works does good work, but Maine is an expensive place to perform work.

I’d bet this Collins/Snowe boondoggle

[The Duke]

If conceived under the Obama administration then you can bet it’s a design that came straight from China.

[AlmaKing]

Looks like an Ironclad from the Civil War.

[Tucker39]

Not a word about its means of propulsion. Nuke?

[mylife]

Bath Iron Works knows how to build some Frigates and Destroyers

[Theoria]

Dang. I’m glad it has radar and a hull.

[Ronin]

Does it submerge? Seriously, from an angle the hull form of that beast tends to remind me of an old fleet boat somehow.

[mylife]

Propulsion: All-electric Drive with (IPS), 2 Rolls-Royce MT30 Gas Turbines 36MW, 2 shafts
Speed: 30 knots

[SpaceBar]

Yes, let’s build a fantastically expensive piece of military hardware (even though we’re functionally broke as a nation) only to have it taken out by the naval equivalent of an improvised roadside bomb. Yeah, that’s the ticket.

[mamelukesabre]

Sheesh, that is odd looking.

It almost looks submersible.

[RhoTheta]

How does this thing protect itself? Will it be so expensive that the Navy won’t risk deploying them for fear they might lose one?

[mylife]

I would prefer the menace of Submarines for that price. ;)

Long Live Electric Boat!

[Dogbert41]

“If conceived under the Obama administration then you can bet it’s a design that came straight from China.”

It reads better like this: If conceived under the Obama administration, you can bet its design went straight to China.”

[sjmjax]

Looks kind of familar.... Guess what's old is new!

[tumblindice]

“it will have half the crew”

I read the book `Das Boot’ and there the U-boat commander wishes he didn’t need a crew, that it was just him against another captain.

[Dawggie]

It’s an expensive target.