DDG 1000, U.S. Navy's Zumwalt Class of multi-mission guided missile destroyer © Reuters
NRO: How the Navy’s Zumwalt-Class Destroyers Ran Aground
Billed as the Navy’s stealth wonder-ship of the future, the USS Zumwalt destroyer has turned into a procurement boondoggle.
On November 22, while the world watched, the U.S. Navy’s newest, most complex warship ground to a stop in the middle of the Panama Canal, both propellers seized, leaving the ship dead in the water. The warship, the USS Zumwalt, DDG-1000, had to be towed out of the canal. While not as embarrassing as watching our sailors being taken hostage by Iran and then publicly humiliated, nonetheless it was pretty embarrassing. Yes, all new classes of ships have teething problems, but this is at least the third major “engineering casualty” that the USS Zumwalt has experienced over the last few months, and it is emblematic of a defense-procurement system that is rapidly losing its ability to meet our national-security needs.
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Update: ‘Unmitigated disaster’: US Navy’s Zumwalt destroyer project blasted as wasteful & incapable (RT).
WNU Editor: I was/am surprised to read this post from National Review. It is a brutal assessment on the Zumwalt destroyer, and a must read.
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You can do your opens source collection here and figure out, where it all went wrong.
It's not a procurement disaster for the ones selling stuff to the Navy for it.
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