USN Newest (and Weirdest Looking) Destroyer

[Cdnwolf]

http://bigstory.ap.org/a8de5f47afa84886b229a14e28660fb1

[RN7]

It looks a bit like a US Civil War era monitor

[swaghauler]

The Navy finally got smart and upgraded the automatic cannon to 155mm caliber (still rapid fire no less). Now the branches can all share artillery ammo, including the Excaliber round and the new GPS kits which will mount on a standard 155mm shell and turn it into a "tube launched JDAM." The idea of the Zumwalt sailing into a combat zone under the cover of darkness (with its very low radar signature) and unleashing a rapid-fire barrage of Excaliber rounds makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside. I cannot wait to see the railgun fitted to the one under construction now.

[pmulcahy11b]

It looks a bit like a US Civil War era monitor

It's looks sort of like a medieval castle.

[Adm.Lee]

It's looks sort of like a medieval castle.

More like a Renaissance-era sloped glacis.

[Raellus]

The Navy finally got smart and upgraded the automatic cannon to 155mm caliber (still rapid fire no less). Now the branches can all share artillery ammo, including the Excaliber round and the new GPS kits which will mount on a standard 155mm shell and turn it into a "tube launched JDAM." The idea of the Zumwalt sailing into a combat zone under the cover of darkness (with its very low radar signature) and unleashing a rapid-fire barrage of Excaliber rounds makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside. I cannot wait to see the railgun fitted to the one under construction now.

+1

I hope that it doesn't turn into the expensive disappointments that the two USN's "Littoral Combat Ship" classes have.

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[Matt Wiser]

Looks like something out of James H. Cobb's Choosers of the Slain.

[stormlion1]

I hear a lot of navy personnel can't stand the ship.

[Tekrat04]

The Navy finally got smart and upgraded the automatic cannon to 155mm caliber (still rapid fire no less). Now the branches can all share artillery ammo, including the Excaliber round and the new GPS kits which will mount on a standard 155mm shell and turn it into a "tube launched JDAM." The idea of the Zumwalt sailing into a combat zone under the cover of darkness (with its very low radar signature) and unleashing a rapid-fire barrage of Excaliber rounds makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside. I cannot wait to see the railgun fitted to the one under construction now.

Incorrect. Same caliber, but not the same ammunition. Just like the 30mm auto canon on an A-10 can't fire the ammunition for the auto canon of the AH-64.

[WallShadow]

This is supposed to be a Destroyer? At 15,000 tons?
That's a cruiser and a half!

[rcaf_777]

The idea of the Zumwalt sailing into a combat zone under the cover of darkness (with its very low radar signature) and unleashing a rapid-fire barrage of Excaliber rounds makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside. I cannot wait to see the railgun fitted to the one under construction now.

There is also a plan for a Arsenal Ship which agian would sailing into a combat zone under the cover of darkness (with its very low radar signature) and unleashing a rapid-fire barrage of MGM-140 Army Tactical Missile System

I think the project was canceled but recently USN has since modified the four oldest Ohio-class Trident submarines to the SSGN configuration, allowing them to carry up to 154 Tomahawk cruise missiles using vertical launching systems installed in the tubes which previously held strategic ballistic missiles.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arsenal_ship

[Silent Hunter UK]

Indeed, I believe they used the SSGN Ohio subs in Libya.

[rcaf_777]

Dose anybody care to guess who is in Command of newest ship?

Captain James A. Krik

At frist I thought it was a joke but

http://globalnews.ca/news/2384784/capt-james-kirk-commands-u-s-navys-largest-destroyer-ever-on-maiden-voyage/

and then the offical word from the USN

http://www.public.navy.mil/surfor/ddg1000/Pages/bio1.aspx

I feel sorry for him, as I sure he gets endless warp speed jokes from this peers

Reminds me of when I worked for the Airforce and the my Wing's UFO Officer had had the intials of ET.

[Bullet Magnet]

Capt James A Kirk....

Keep your eyes open in a few years to hear about a Capt James B Kirk. Gotta work through to T in the next 250 years.

Seriously, gotta sympathize. I'm sure he's heard every reference at least a hundred times by now, especially after attaining his current rank.