Posted on 09/07/2016 8:18:01 AM PDT by sukhoi-30mki
Edited on 09/07/2016 9:32:11 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
The largest and most expensive destroyer ever built for the U.S. Navy once headed to sea in a snowstorm during builder trials. Now, it's heading into the remnants of a tropical storm as it leaves Maine for good.
The skipper is watching the weather as the stealthy Zumwalt destroyer prepares to depart from Bath Iron Works on Wednesday en route to its commissioning in Baltimore, and then to its homeport in San Diego.
I was thinking more a battle cruiser, given the lack of armor.
only a single helo ?
This new destroyer is the first time in 30 years that we've seen a new hull with a new weapon system. Will watch with interest to see if that works out as hoped.
What’s wrong with the Dakotas?
Well, once you’ve seen Mt Rushmore, there’s not much more to see.
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Batman, Robin, and Alfred's, too:
No kidding! Not my idea of a ‘Tin Can’ by any stretch.
QM2, USS Ault DD698
No kidding? Interesting. Did not know that.
“Heavily armed non-aviation surface combatant of variable tonnage.”
Except those Japanese ones for which the ‘non-aviation’ does not apply.
You refer to the destroyers that merely look like aircraft carriers?
Come to think of it, the Soviet era Kiev class were officially designated as “heavy aviation cruisers”
This aviation cruiser designation was adopted by the Soviets to apply to several classes of their aircraft carrying ships (Moskova, Kiev, and Kuztnetov) so they could legally transit through the Bosphorus Strait to access the Black Sea under the 1936 Montreux Convention.
The Montreux Convention’s rules are slanted to favor nations that border the Black Sea. So while the Russians to sail very large “aircraft cruisers” through the Straits into the Black Sea, non-bordering states like, for example, the United States, cannot:
However, there are maritime navigation issues that probably preclude taking such large warships through the Strait’s confined and dangerous waters:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bosphorus#Maritime
function is land bombardment
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