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USS Zumwalt, DDG-1000, complete 2nd US Navy acceptance Trials
FR | May 11, 2016 | Jeff Head

Posted on 05/11/2016 9:06:31 AM PDT by Jeff Head

This is one of the best pictures of the new USS Zumwalt destroyer yet.

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There she is on her second (very successful) US Navy acceptance trials and will soon be turnd over to the US Navy soon.

They will put her through her paces for the next 18 or more months before commissioning in late 2017 or so. Beautiful and very powerful, modern vessel. The second will launch soon.

See my Flickr Album on this Ship for much more information


TOPICS: Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: boondoggle; ddg1000; pos; steathdestroyer; usnavy; usszumwalt; wasteofmoney; worthless; zumwalt
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To: ClearCase_guy

Exactly and spot on.


41 posted on 05/11/2016 12:36:55 PM PDT by Jeff Head (Semper Fidelis - Molon Labe - Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Hehehe...the first captain of this ship happens to be named, Captain James Kirk.

No lie.


42 posted on 05/11/2016 12:37:56 PM PDT by Jeff Head (Semper Fidelis - Molon Labe - Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: yuleeyahoo

Actually, the first rail gun was planned to be tested at sea to sea this year. It will be tested at sea on one of the new Joint High Speed Transport ships being set up specially as a test bed for it.

This may still occur, but an alternate plan was announced in March to forego that testing and put the 1st gun on the 3rd Zumwalt vessel, The Lyndon Baines Johnson, currently under construction and set to launch in 2017.

Not sure which they will do at this point...final decision not made.

We shall see.

But it is definitely well tested and coming close to being available.

I expect we will see what deployed to sea in the 2020 time frame.


43 posted on 05/11/2016 12:43:25 PM PDT by Jeff Head (Semper Fidelis - Molon Labe - Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: Jeff Head

Hi guy. I hope you are doing well.

Looks like an old ship design. I’m having a senior moment here,...oh right, the Merrimack or the Monitor, I forget which one.

5.56mm


44 posted on 05/11/2016 12:50:53 PM PDT by M Kehoe
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To: Jeff Head

I’m a mechanical engineer and well aware of the advantages of forward sweep. Also that it brings disadvantages. What I was pointing out is that the forward sweep on a turn into a wave is going to create one huge bow surge versus backward swept. I’m sure it operates great on the design points.


45 posted on 05/11/2016 12:51:56 PM PDT by DaxtonBrown (wrote Harry Reid.s only biography www.futurnamics.com/reid.php)
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To: FreeAtlanta

I have often wondered why that hasn’t been tried (Well, except for the 10 gazillion dollars for acres of flat panel displays!)


46 posted on 05/11/2016 1:06:54 PM PDT by rlmorel ("Irrational violence against muslims" is a myth, but "Irrational violence against non-muslims" isn't)
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To: rktman

Well, the radar signature is apparently very, VERY small, but...if someone stuck a periscope up, well...a MK-48 would probably do just fine...


47 posted on 05/11/2016 1:08:42 PM PDT by rlmorel ("Irrational violence against muslims" is a myth, but "Irrational violence against non-muslims" isn't)
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To: PLMerite

Hahahaha...that picture nearly made me fall out of my chair!


48 posted on 05/11/2016 1:09:18 PM PDT by rlmorel ("Irrational violence against muslims" is a myth, but "Irrational violence against non-muslims" isn't)
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To: deoetdoctrinae
This is MY idea of the most beautiful warship ever built:


49 posted on 05/11/2016 1:10:25 PM PDT by rlmorel ("Irrational violence against muslims" is a myth, but "Irrational violence against non-muslims" isn't)
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To: Jeff Head

I just watched a u tube on a rail gun test by NAVSEA. Flames everywhere. What? What’s with a the fire and brimstone I wasn’t expecting that.


50 posted on 05/11/2016 1:12:19 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Jeff Head

I heard they were upgrading the electronic infrastructure on a few late model Arleigh Burkes (Flight III?) which was bringing up from 450 volts to 4,160 volts...there was speculation it was being done to handle the high requirements of a rail gun, IIRC.


51 posted on 05/11/2016 1:15:23 PM PDT by rlmorel ("Irrational violence against muslims" is a myth, but "Irrational violence against non-muslims" isn't)
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To: rlmorel

Wow. Looks like she means business.


52 posted on 05/11/2016 1:18:45 PM PDT by deoetdoctrinae (Donate monthly and end FReepathons)
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To: central_va

I believe that NAVSEA test was done in 2012 with very un-aerodynamic slugs.

Try the one from 2013 and later with the more aerodynamic rounds.

Here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7Xh28hNRBQ

...and watch this one. where two protytpes are seen on the US Navy JHSV that may test one of them this summer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXF0n6aojSc

Good stuff.


53 posted on 05/11/2016 3:17:33 PM PDT by Jeff Head (Semper Fidelis - Molon Labe - Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: Jeff Head

How are they going to hide from all the missiles coming in?


54 posted on 05/11/2016 3:35:29 PM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: minnesota_bound

They have several methods:

1. They are very stealthy. All angles, no masts, no protrusions, no barrels, etc. Very hard for an enemy to find and lock on to.

2. They have electronic counter-measures galore to electronically jam and confuse missiles. Even butn their electronics out.

3. They have systems that blast stealthy clouds of material and/or chaff into the air to have missiles lose their lock.

4. They have anti-missiles, quad packed into each vertical launch cell carrying them. it is likely that they will carry upwards of 100 of these missiles. These shoot down incoming missiles

5. Last, they will have a Close-in-Weapon System, Probably a couple of 30mm guns for last defense. They too can shoot down incoming missiles.

Once the rail gun is added, they have anti-missile projectiles that will also be very effective.

US Navy ships are the best defended vessels on earth against incoming missiles...but no matter how you dice it, if the enemy finds you and launches, it is a very dangerous thing.


55 posted on 05/11/2016 3:43:12 PM PDT by Jeff Head (Semper Fidelis - Molon Labe - Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: deoetdoctrinae

Isn’t that just beautiful.

Power.

To quote Bill Whittle: “She’s a bad, Baaaad, girl...”


56 posted on 05/11/2016 4:42:08 PM PDT by rlmorel ("Irrational violence against muslims" is a myth, but "Irrational violence against non-muslims" isn't)
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To: Jeff Head

Embarrassing if it is the Iranians or North Koreans that sink the ship.


57 posted on 05/11/2016 4:52:26 PM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: rlmorel

It seems to be working, AFAIK it hasn’t been torpedoed yet.


58 posted on 05/11/2016 5:31:12 PM PDT by PLMerite (Compromise is Surrender: The Revolution...will not be kind.)
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To: Jeff Head
You can put two Burkes in the water for the extended price of a Zumwalt...and their mission is the same.

While neat as hell, and likely very capable, the DDG-1000 cannot perform the mission of two Burkes.

And definitely cannot be in two places at the same time.

It carriers approx 20% more VLS tubes (120 I think)for more than twice the price.

While it does carry the 155mm gun, what will that do that a 5in/54 won't at sea?

As for stealth, I don't buy it. There's no way to hide a 15kt warship.

59 posted on 05/11/2016 5:32:30 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Jeff Head
You can put two Burkes in the water for the extended price of a Zumwalt...and their mission is the same.

While neat as hell, and likely very capable, the DDG-1000 cannot perform the mission of two Burkes.

And definitely cannot be in two places at the same time.

It carriers approx 20% more VLS tubes (120 I think)for more than twice the price.

While it does carry the 155mm gun, what will that do that a 5in/54 won't at sea?

As for stealth, I don't buy it. There's no way to hide a 15kt warship.

I would much rather the Navy point that money at more Burkes, Some Frigates and a Sub or two.

60 posted on 05/11/2016 5:34:48 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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