Popular Mechanics: Why the Navy Is More Interested in the 'Ship of Theseus' Than the USS Zumwalt
The sea service would prefer to recycle ship designs, adding revolutionary tech as it becomes available.
The U.S. Navy would prefer older ship designs outfitted with new weapons instead of new designs fitted with new weapons. The service, stung by recent difficulties fielding new hulls such as the destroyer USS Zumwalt, could choose to produce the same type of ship but with progressively more advanced technology, including weapons.
According to Greek mythology, the hero Theseus owned a ship that was slowly replaced, plank by plank, until every part had been replaced. This has led to the “Ship of Theseus” thought experiment that asks the question: if every part of an object is replaced, is the result the same object or an essentially new one?
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WNU editor: I am sure the U.S. Navy will continue to explore and develop building ships with new designs, but the focus is shifting to produce ships that everyone knows will work.
9 comments:
These zumwalt class stealth destroyers make no sense whatsoever. Maybe if we were fighting the Congo or another 3rd world military. 2nd and 1st world can detect them. We don't need stealth against 3rd world. And we don't have any stealth that 1st she 2nd world militaries wouldn't see. So these billions for marginal stealth and huggge other issues (bugs, maintenance, design defects) just don't make zumwalt wirthwhile
Anon (11:08AM,)
Couldn't have put this any better myself. Spending high dollar for items of marginal utility doesn't make much sense. People often cite the amount the US spends on its military as a primary piece of evidence to suggest the US military is superior to other countries. While military spending is not unimportant per say, it is actually the least important statistic in trying to compare military power among nations.
Will this even work against 3rd world militaries? After all if they have assistance from 1st and 2nd world militaries it may not.
bposter, look, appreciated, but you keep making the same point over and over again. We all know the point. Our adversaries know the point. We make the same point about them.
Please, ffs, that's why we have training, spying, simulations and other strategies. Just stop. Thank you.
PS. Russia's military spending AND china: Do you know the level of corruption in Russia and how shitty their hardware is and why no one purchases from them if they want to face a serious adversary and not have their hardware break down? I know you do know all that :) So please, just stop..otherwise people will never take you seriously. Unless you are in high school and just a bit autistic, you are not telling anyone anything new.
Respectfully so, your western counterpart ;) Thanks
USS Constitution?
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omg you idiot
some people will never wake up
Agreed there's a reason why Fox is the hottest rated news network and cnn is rock bottom.
Must be a cnn employee hoping he can persuade some fool to watch this cruel joke of a tv channel. .only people travelling (airports and hotels) with no choice or brain activity watch this divisive unamerican filth
OBJECTIVE COMPARISON OF TRUTH IN CHANNEL NEWS SHOWS
FOX BOTTOM OF LIST FOR TRUTH!
The Zumwalts are just entering the fleet and nobody is in a position to say they make no sense whatsoever. Well I stand corrected, without that uber long range canon they make no sense whatsoever as a shore bombardment ship supporting Marine landings. As it turns out the Navy has moved the mission to long range maritime attack missions unrelated to landings. For that mission it is reasonably well equipped.
With only three of them, the Navy will be challenged to keep one at sea at all times and that won't happen till mid 20202's, at a guess.
Yeah right you can tell anon@137pm has sand in his vag
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