What you get for $7 billion dollars: A guide to the USS Zumwalt's unique features
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To: sukhoi-30mki
This is little more than a silly-assed waste of money when good designs are available NOW at $500mil a copy.
2 posted on
04/12/2012 9:15:56 PM PDT by
Mariner
(War Criminal #18)
To: sukhoi-30mki
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.
3 posted on
04/12/2012 9:18:00 PM PDT by
ThunderSleeps
(Stop obama now! Stop the hussein - insane agenda!)
To: sukhoi-30mki
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
4 posted on
04/12/2012 9:18:56 PM PDT by
Jeff Head
(Freedom is not free, never has been, never will be (www.dragonsfuryseries.com))
To: sukhoi-30mki
Bath Iron works does good work, but Maine is an expensive place to perform work.
I’d bet this Collins/Snowe boondoggle
5 posted on
04/12/2012 9:22:42 PM PDT by
mylife
(The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
To: sukhoi-30mki
If conceived under the Obama administration then you can bet it’s a design that came straight from China.
6 posted on
04/12/2012 9:23:39 PM PDT by
The Duke
Looks like an Ironclad from the Civil War.
7 posted on
04/12/2012 9:25:14 PM PDT by
AlmaKing
To: sukhoi-30mki
Not a word about its means of propulsion. Nuke?
8 posted on
04/12/2012 9:28:33 PM PDT by
Tucker39
( Psa 68:19Blessed be the Lord, who daily loadeth us with benefits; even the God of our salvation.KJV)
To: sukhoi-30mki
Bath Iron Works knows how to build some Frigates and Destroyers
9 posted on
04/12/2012 9:29:19 PM PDT by
mylife
(The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
To: sukhoi-30mki
Dang. I’m glad it has radar and a hull.
10 posted on
04/12/2012 9:29:24 PM PDT by
Theoria
(Rush Limbaugh: Ron Paul sounds like an Islamic terrorist)
To: sukhoi-30mki
Does it submerge? Seriously, from an angle the hull form of that beast tends to remind me of an old fleet boat somehow.
11 posted on
04/12/2012 9:30:55 PM PDT by
Ronin
(Sarah.... We really need you now!)
To: sukhoi-30mki
Sheesh, that is odd looking.
It almost looks submersible.
To: sukhoi-30mki; Egon
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?
15 posted on
04/12/2012 9:31:44 PM PDT by
RhoTheta
("We're from the Government, and we're here to help you ... NOT")
To: sukhoi-30mki
Looks kind of familar.... Guess what's old is new!
18 posted on
04/12/2012 9:38:55 PM PDT by
sjmjax
(Politicans are like bananas - they start out green, turn yellow, then rot.)
To: sukhoi-30mki
“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.
19 posted on
04/12/2012 9:40:16 PM PDT by
tumblindice
(Our new, happy lives.)
To: sukhoi-30mki
It’s an expensive target.
20 posted on
04/12/2012 9:40:59 PM PDT by
Dawggie
To: sukhoi-30mki
Featuring a radical wave-piercing hull known as a ‘tumblehome’,
Say no more—I like it.
23 posted on
04/12/2012 9:44:55 PM PDT by
tumblindice
(Our new, happy lives.)
To: sukhoi-30mki
Featuring a radical wave-piercing hull known as a 'tumblehome', There's gonna be puking galore on that ship. ☺
25 posted on
04/12/2012 9:49:59 PM PDT by
mylife
(The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
To: sukhoi-30mki
Thought this thing was supposed to have the railgun?
44 posted on
04/12/2012 11:18:53 PM PDT by
Hardraade
(http://junipersec.wordpress.com (nobody gives me warheads anyway))
To: sukhoi-30mki
[”Named the U.S.S Zumwalt, the $7 billion guided-missile destroyer is at the cutting edge of technology and now deemed vital for defence following President Obama’s Asia-Pacific pivot.”]
Oh my, Obama pivots, and immediatly they start building the worlds most expensive warship?
This ship has been in the works for years, Obammy had naught to do with it.
46 posted on
04/13/2012 1:42:13 AM PDT by
Sea Parrot
(Nations are only truly great when it's people are struggling against all odds, growing and expanding)
To: sukhoi-30mki
The Chinese will have a knock-off made before we ever get ours off the drawing board.
50 posted on
04/13/2012 2:24:50 AM PDT by
Minutemen
("It's a Religion of Peace")
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