A Look At The U.S. Navy's DDG-1000 Zumwalt Class Of Warships

The Navy Is Building a Stealth Battleship Strike Force -- War Is Boring

Hopefully the first big wave won’t sink it

The Navy’s newest warships are hard to detect on radar, heavily armed with super-accurate guns and missiles … and gigantic. Six hundred feet long and displacing 15,000 tons of water, the DDG-1000 Zumwalt-class ships are designated as destroyers but are actually as big as some World War I battleships. The Navy is building three of the Zumwalts over the next five years and deploying them to the Pacific to counter China’s fast-improving military.

That’s assuming the $7-billion-apiece Zumwalts don’t simply capsize the first time a powerful wave strikes them from behind. The high-tech battleships feature a novel, downward-sloping “tumblehome” hull that’s optimized for stealth not stability—and lacks the wave-resisting qualities of traditional ships with upward-flaring hulls.

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My Comment: I am still digesting the $7 billion price tag per ship.