Sunday, December 12, 2021

US Navy's Stealth Destroyer Covered In Rust

Warzone/The Drive: The Navy's $9B Stealthy Super Destroyer Is Covered In Rust 

The controversial futuristic warship looked less than gleaming as it pulled into San Diego Bay recently. 

The Navy's first of just three DDG-1000 destroyers, USS Zumwalt, continues its testing and training work off Southern California. The ship, which was commissioned five years ago, has been coming and going from San Diego Bay regularly for years now. The second ship in this small class of highly advanced warships, USS Michael Mansoor (DDG-1001), has also joined Zumwalt in San Diego for its own outfitting and trials. 

It is hoped that Zumwalt will be able to deploy in the not-so-distant future, but the futuristic warship looked less than gleaming recently, with some of its radar-absorbent tiles deeply discolored and rust streaking down its convex tumblehome hull. Images taken by @CRJ1321 that were posted by our @Warshipcam show the ship looking unlike its usually relatively pristine self: 

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4 comments:

RussInSoCal said...

Emblematic of our entire military. /But on the bright side we're all trained up on racial wokeness.

Anonymous said...

Don't forget, the NAVY may not be able to avoid collisions, or clean rust, but they are LGBTQ friendly.

Jac said...

All our last projects are dysfunctional. We have to shake the tree.

Anonymous said...

All ships look like that when they come back from deployment.