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Generally speaking the time between the concept of a weapons system and it’s actual full deployment is around 10 yrs or more. Since technology advances geometrically it stands to reason by the time a weapon his in production it is already obsolete.
We believed, when I was in the USAF, that once a new fighter is made known to the general public a newer version is already in the works.
Sounds to me like the US Navy is all set to quash Third World enemies ... something it has much recent experience with. G_d help them against the upgraded Russian or the quickly modernizing Chinese Navies.
2X 155mm guns.
80 missiles
seems adequate
What horse manure. People are fighting plenty of wars with old equipment. Make do with your “outdated warship” stupid Feds
I guess automated damage control make sense when we have crews full of gals who do not have the upper body strength to lug the lumber necessary to plug and patch.
I don’t recall the Monitor having any tumblehome at all. Now the Merrimac (or Virginia, if you prefer) did. This author is an idiot.
Hogwash. Somebody is trying to create controversy where there is none.
This hull design has been tested and retested on computers and models. This is a reliable, proven method that’s been used by the Navy for a long time. They chose this profile for it’s ability to deflect radar AND sea keeping ability.
The ship was not designed around guns and NGFS. She is primarily a missile platform. It’s easy to forget that because VLS hides all those weapons. She’s not only useful parked 20 miles off a coast.
I had a history professor tell me once that the biggest misnomer in military studies is tge term “obsolete weaponry”.
And it is unarmored. These things won’t survive combat. They are suited for anti piracy ops and nothing more, a task which seems to be less important now as more traditional ships and multinational participation seems to have got that problem down to its old desultory level.
The Germans had a terrible problem with military technology in WWII. Their scientists were continually developing new models, upgrades, add-ons, this, that and the other to their weapons, and then fielding them. It caused chaos.
Everything from small arms to heavy tanks, all incompatible with each other, were sent to the fronts, guaranteeing there would never be enough ammo, and that the loss of a single major weapons system would be a disaster.
The pinnacle of this over-design was likely the “Elefant” heavy tank destroyer, that was so overloaded with gizmos that by the end of the war it was almost immobile. Since then it is still remembered for its over-design, and total reliance on theoretical quality instead of quantity.
But the extreme of this was when German scientists were asked to develop the perfect artillery cannon, which on paper would have likely been the best artillery piece ever created. Unfortunately, it needed to be made with a tungsten alloy, needing more tungsten for a single tube than the known world reserves of tungsten at the time.