The Warzone/The Drive: Navy's Revamped Stealth Destroyer Looks Less Stealthy As It Leaves San Diego For Trials
Zumwalt class destroyers consistently shed capabilities as costs ballooned. Now the Navy is bolting components directly to their stealthy deckhouses.
USS Zumwalt (DDG-1000) is a controversial ship, to say the least. After much fanfare among the mainstream press, the truth about the ship's watered-down design, tiny fleet size, useless deck guns, and the implications of these factors, among others, became much more clear. As we reported two years ago, in yet another cost-cutting move, the Navy decided to forego the ship's very stealth concept—which is the major reason the ships look the way they do, cost as much as they do, and have certain design tradeoffs for doing so—and bolt on communications systems and some sensors in a very unstealthy manner. These corner-cutting measures even included the addition of a rickety looking mast above the ship's deckhouse. Now we are getting our first glimpses of this disappointing configuration.
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WNU Editor: So this US Navy program is years late, costs more than anything afloat short of a Nimitz– or Ford-class aircraft carrier or nuclear ballistic missile submarine, and is less stealthy and less well-armed than promised. Groan .... what a mess.
3 comments:
Looks cool 😎. I'm waiting for the drones to take over the scene. To mini drone subs to kamikaze drones of all sorts. La d, Sea and air, which I know is coming around the corner. Still waiting for my goliath though haha! Back on topic what a waste of time and money 😢.
I mean Mech oops.
It's such a flawed concept. The stealth capabilities wouldn't have worked past new radars now in tests and likely deployed before 2030. On top, the space limitations that such design (volume limitations etc) brings with it, makes everything a custom job - not only to mention limiting the max tonnage by a lot. Wtf. Who greenlights such systems? They would only be invisible from 2030 on to 3rd world armies and for those we don't need these. Wtffff
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