Posted on 09/08/2016 3:26:17 PM PDT by rockinqsranch
The future USS Zumwalt (DDG 1000), the largest and most technologically advanced destroyer ever built for the U.S. Navy, has departed Bath Iron Works shipyard where it has been under construction for more than half a decade.
At a total of cost of nearly $4 billion, the DDG 1000 is also the most expensive destroyer ever built for the U.S. Navy.
(Excerpt) Read more at gcaptain.com ...
LOL!
More like the Confederate Ironclad Merrimac I think. Let’s hope it doesn’t meet a similar fate.
Dadgum, that each one of those guns can fire a round every 6 seconds and a range of 59 miles?
Crusader eat your heart out...
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How much did it depreciate in value after leaving port?
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integrated power system (IPS).
It uses diesel engines to provide electrical power for propulsion? How is this different than diesel electric propulsion?
“How is this different than diesel electric propulsion?”
Beats me. I just assumed it was just another reference for Diesel Electric.
I get confused sometimes when one industry calls something one thing yet another industry calls it something else. Railroads for instance use Diesel electric, but perhaps the military, or the ship building industry calls them IPS. Of course then the submarines use Diesel Electric, so maybe it’s something else. I don’t know.
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>> “It uses diesel engines to provide electrical power for propulsion?” <<
Where did you read that?
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And they can fire the "smart" Long Range Land Attack Projectile (LRLAP) round, which uses GPS and inertial guidance to hit targets to within 50 meters at the end of that trajectory.
And the price for each of these would pay for six or seven Burke class destroyers.
No matter how good it is, it can only be in one place at one time, not six or seven places or five places with ship rotation depending on whether it's a wartime or peacetime deployment.
I also don't see how when it comes to defending carriers how it is superior to having four to six Burke class ships sailing with the carrier.
And the price for each of these would pay for six or seven Burke class destroyers.
I believe that your point is essentially correct, but that the total cost of ownership would probably be quite different. Personnel, Operations and Maintenance costs add up to a lot over the lifecycle. The real cost might be a lot lower or higher than purchase price would indicate.
The big value might have been just keeping the industrial, research and development base from falling apart during the Obama years.
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>> “I also don’t see how when it comes to defending carriers how it is superior to having four to six Burke class ships sailing with the carrier.” <<
In short, it reduces the required manpower.
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Carrier battle groups still require multiple ASW and AA platforms with them and from the way anti-ship weaponry is advancing will in fact need more protective ships to accompany them than is currently the norm.
The Navy with ships has the same tendency as the Air Force with aircraft which leads to things like this behemoth for the Navy and continuous attempts by the Air Force to scrap the not sexy workhorse A10 starting from the day they had to accept it because Congress forced it down their throat.
Ships so expensive that in the end twenty three admirals and eighty Captains to command five hundred seamen and other ranks aboard ten ships, ships that they'll desperately try to keep out of harms way, isn't going to work out.
Two of these and a dozen more updated Burkes might make sense but only to the extent that these ships actually do more than serve a plumb assignments for those who the brass know won't put them at risk doing anything more dangerous than bombarding Bimini or some such.
JMHo
In the article, it mentions fuel savings.
I did searches on IPS and it seems to apply to more than one technology.
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