USS Zumwalt (DDG-1000)

It's a cool looking ship though.

 

Just makes me think of the movie quote.
"You don't actually think they spend $20,000 on a hammer, $30,000 on a toilet seat do you?"

 

I think of that quote quite often actually. Especially when talking about government funding.

 

They sad thing is, they could have went with an off-the-shelf round that is exactly the same, but 'only' costs $60k a shot. Nope, the US Navy has a huge Not Invented Here problem and has to reinvent the wheel. They could have used a M982 Excalibur round from the US Army, which is the same caliber at 155mm.

 

Military expenses %66 of our taxes. rest of the crumbs goes to education, wellfare and such.
What a shame our troops are dying, our country's wealth is getting wasted, just to make war lords richer.

 

Where do you get 66%? We don't even spend 20% of our budget on Military... Maybe 55% of Congress discretionary funding, which only accounts for a 1/3 of the taxes.

 

The Zumwalt is a product of cold war planning, building and deploying with one goal, destruction of the USSR.The time that we grew up in or lived in when she was liad down to be constructed was a inteesting time. I hae learned how her pair of 155mm weapons work and there was a technique (Also used by the German 2000, American Paladin and certain Israeli weapons in Artillery) where a number of shells usually 6 are rapid fired in a few seconds. There is a computer with fast robotics relaying the gun a degree and half in elevation down slightly with each round.

The result is tha all 6 rounds catch up to each other in a better turning circle and stay together during impact which is tremendous.

I practiced this on three seperate video games and have proven to myself that this system does work with a sufficiently rapid firing device such as MLRS, German 2000 using burst and so on. The rounds arrived at the same time in the simulation, game causing people to loudly denouce me for cheating. How little do they know.

The Zumwalt made another mistake. They placed vertical missile tubes on the gunwales. It is a location most subject to incoming fires. Kaboom anyone?

The modular mission pad is nice. but cut it off the ship and throw it away. As designed you had hundreds of weaponry ready to go with a fast elite crew reloading during battle conditions that we must think of today as Apolycapse when 1000 plus soviet vampires are inbound from a cloud of 100 plus waves of strike bombers. Otherwise with our pitiful handful of defense weapons and limited reloads, even a few dozen Kalibers inbound or sunburn/shipwreck missiles will be enough to destroy the Zumwalt.

I hate to be so negative. The US Navy has been gripped by a parasite palsy which destroys any possible mental thinking towards bloodyminded and warfighting surviviability in battle. They continue to crank out Burke lookalikes that are already outdated and sink billions into ships that need to ro back to the cold war roots to match those of our enemies. A box of Evolved Sparrow and a couple Phalanc cannon does not cut it. Im sorry, how stupid do you think you are US Navy?

 

@ExOTR
I've watched that on a documentary, michael moore's last one. it might be a bs but it gives the breakdown and totaling to %66.

 

You said it.......all in one sentence......Michael Moore & BS