#zumwalt-class

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The US Navy guided missile destroyer USS Michael Monsoor gets underway from Pearl Harbor

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hi!!!!! I'm still alive!!!!!!!!!!!!! ok who gaf i still haven't finished the sir killalot drawing and now her unfinished form is sharing a canvas with a bunch of entirely non-robot-wars gijinkas sorry

i got really normal about the zumwalt-class missile destroyers you do not understand i would kiss this ship. very pretty vessel look at her

i'm brewing on some robot wars stuff in the meantime... i still have to do the house robots and (crucially) fix killalot's skirt. and colour her. that girl deserves an artist with a stronger fortitude

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Not your daddy’s destroyer!

                   (Nor the ones I drove during my U.S. Navy career.)

SAN DIEGO, CA (January 26, 2019) -- (Top photo) Sailors fire a 19-gun salute during the commissioning ceremony of the United States Navy’s newest guided-missile destroyer, USS Michael Monsoor (DDG 1001).

(Second, third and fourth photos) The 140 crew members of the ultra-modern warship symbolically “man” their ship, as it is placed into commission, and joins the active Fleet. Meanwhile, a large audience observes the traditional ceremony from pierside.

USS Michael Monsoor (DDG 1001) is the second of three Zumwalt-class stealth destroyers to join the active Fleet. USS Zumwalt (DDG 1000) was commissioned in late 2016....and USS Lyndon B. Johnson (DDG 1002) is expected to join the Fleet in 2020.

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USS Zumwalt (DDG 1000)....Note the stealth-design, with weapons systems, sensors and other superstructure enclosed in a radar-reflective shell.

The Navy will only build three of these exorbitantly-expensive (USD $4 Billion each!) warships....but they will serve as essential operational test platforms for a multitude of weapon systems, technological advances, and strategic and tactical development of American Naval forces.

These three ships will, essentially, bridge the gap between more traditional (”old-fashioned”) front-line warships of the 20th century....and the stealth, high-tech warships of the mid-21st century and beyond. Those classes of ships are currently in the design stage.

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>>CLICK the top five photos for a closer look....

>>Top four photos: Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Peter Burghart, USN

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US Navy Christens Third Zumwalt-Class Guided Missile Destroyer

The potential USS Lyndon B. Johnson was christened on April 27 at a shipyard in the northeastern United States.

The future USS Lyndon B. Johnson (DDG 1002), the 3rd and closing ship of the Zumwalt-class – the U.S. Navy’s premier and technologically most sophisticated course of guided-missile destroyers — was christened at the Normal Dynamics-Tub Iron Functions (BIW) shipyard in Maine on April 27.

Lynda Johnson Robb and Luci Johnson, the two daughters of former President Lyndon B. Johnson, in whose honor the ship was named immediately after, served as the ship’s sponsors and christened the guided missile destroyer by breaking a bottle of champagne across the bow. According to the Associate Push, numerous peace protesters who blocked the street in front of the shipyard were being arrested.

“The long run USS Lyndon B. Johnson will provide for a long time as a reminder of President Johnson’s service to our nation and help of a robust Navy and Marine Corps workforce,” reported Secretary of the Navy Richard V. Spencer. “This ship honors not only President Johnson’s service, but also the company of our sector companions who are critical in building the Navy the country requirements.”

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The third and final Zumwalt-class guided-missile destroyer was officially laid down in December 2017, although development of the Lyndon B. Johnson by now started in April 2012. The Pentagon experienced strategies in 2015 to scrap the ship as a charge preserving evaluate but experienced to abandon these designs soon after an evaluation concluded that scrapping the warship could conclude up costing the U.S. Navy a lot more than continuing its design. As I explained earlier this calendar year:

Zumwalt-course destroyers element unique wave-piercing tumblehome hulls and a stealth style and design intended to lower the ship’s radar cross-portion. The destroyers are outfitted with eighty MK57 vertical start tubes, just about every able of accommodating one particular to four missiles like SM-1, SM-2 and SM-6 missiles or Tomahawk land-assault missiles. The warships will also be armed with new lengthy-range anti-ship missiles these kinds of as the Maritime Strike Tomahawk subsequent a change of the mission requirements of the Zumwalt-course from a land-assault system to surface warfare in November 2017. (The SM-6 surface-to-air missile can also be deployed as an anti-ship missile.)

In comparison to the previous two ships of the course — the USS Zumwalt and USS Michael Monsoor — the Lyndon B. Johnson will aspect a metal deckhouse instead of the composite constructions as a price preserving measure. The entire Zumwalt-class nonetheless does not have a acceptable projectile for its two Superior Gun Units and stays incapable of executing land-strike missions, which up right until November 2017 was the Zumwalt-class’ principal mission requirement, as I explained previously:

With a charge of $800,000 to $1 million for each Lengthy Array Land Attack Projectile (LRLAP) round, the precision ammunition has turn out to be as well highly-priced for the provider. LRLAP is the only ammunition exclusively made to be fired by the USS Zumwalt’s two 155 millimeter/62-caliber Superior Gun Devices (AGS), the primary armament of the ship with an approximated assortment of up to 63 nautical miles (72 miles, 115 kilometers).

The ship is anticipated to be commissioned in 2021.

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Navy warship being constructed at Bath Iron Works, Zumwalt-class destroyer, Maine

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The Zumwalt-Class Destroyer Next Generation

The Next Generation Of The Zumwalt-Class Destroyer Will Powered By A Modern Nuclear Reactor, That Will Use Water-jet Propulsion System & Will Be Able To Control The Water Line Range In A Specific Distance By A Modern Suspension System,

GO NAVY BEAT ARMY

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Lets talk about Battleship

This is truly something I should've posted when it first came to mind.  Back in July of 2011 I saw the first trailer for the upcoming movie , based no less on the old board game Battleship. The premise of the movie is pretty uninspired in of itself.  The US Navy dueling with aliens in the Pacific Ocean, where the alien ships fire yellow dart like projectiles that are a clear reference to the game's pegs indicating hits and misses.  There's some absurd underlying issue about the main character having to prove himself to the Admiral (played by Liam Neeson, clearly to good for this dross), his potential father-in-law.

Whatever the movie's potential shortcomings might be, however, there is one important problem with the film, straight down to the name itself: battleships.  This movie is pretty clear set in the present day, or at least within the last decade, but the US Navy has not had a battleship in service since the USS Missouri was decommissioned in March 31, 1992.  Its also not likely that this will change soon, or even if the alien threat was known that the battleship would return to the high seas.

The US Navy, as of the mid-2000s, did retain 2 Iowa-class ships in inactive inventory, but there is little to suggest there have been any serious plans to reactivate them, especially in light of budget cuts likely to come in defense spending in the near future.  The dramatic scaling back of the DDG-1000 Zumwalt-class in 2008 provides a good look at how the US Navy currently views the requirement for naval gunfire support.

That last point brings up a further issue with the "Battleship" premise.  The aircraft carrier has been the dominant surface combatant for at least 70 years now.  Though the US Navy retained battleships in the 1990s, their role was clearly diminished.  Plans to extend their livelihoods were largely based around turning them into small aircraft carriers, with guided-missile cruisers, frigates, and destroyers already able to provide the bulk of the cruise missile and naval gunfire support capabilities.  A better look at the various proposals and fates of the battleship in the US Navy can be found here at Globalsecurity.org.