Captain James A Kirk, Commander of the USS USS Zumwalt (DDG 1000)

Americas Navy ^ | 6/13/2013 | Americas Navy

[Dallas59]

Captain Kirk is a native of Bethesda, Maryland and raised in Hershey, Pennsylvania. He was commissioned at the U.S. Naval Academy in 1990 and has served in a variety of afloat and ashore billets as a Surface Warfare Officer. He has served afloat on destroyers, cruisers, frigates and staffs including USS Fife (DD 991), USS The Sullivans (DDG 68), USS Hue City (CG 66), USS John S. McCain (DDG 56), and as a Gas Turbine Inspector on the staff of Commander, Pacific Fleet. His most recent sea duty includes command of USS De Wert (FFG 45) and Operations Officer for Carrier Strike Group Seven, Ronald Reagan Strike Group. Ashore, Captain Kirk has served as Executive Assistant to the Navy’s Chief of Legislative Affairs and as an Action Officer on the Joint Staff. He has attended both the U.S. Naval War College and U. S. Army War College graduating with Masters Degrees in National Security Studies. He is currently serving as the Executive Assistant to the Director of Surface Warfare and is the prospective commanding officer of USS Zumwalt (DDG 1000).

[stormhill]

If I was in his shoes I’d change my middle name to something more appropriate!

Well, James T. Kirk is a native of Iowa, not Maryland...if that's what you meant.

[redlegplanner]

those are 6” (155mm)

[DBrow]

Thanks! I like the little stealth hideaways for them.

[Cvengr]

But LCDR Benjamin SPOCK is now dead Jim,

[Bob]

DDG-1000??? Man, do I feel old. I was on the USS Hoel - DDG-13 a lifetime ago. :=)

[skeeter]

There's... someone on the wing.

Some thing.

[Jack Hydrazine]

‘Zackly!

He could always forge a new BC with Iowa as his birth place!

[Freestate316]

Like Tiberius

[Jack Hydrazine]

Or he could change his surname to Michener.

[PLMerite]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xl6HoJOqnKw

[Kirkwood]

Did he pass the Kobayashi Maru test?

[Hardraade]

Prospective commander of prospective USS Zumwalt.

Does that mean they’re actually going to build it someday?

[freemama]

My son shares his first and last name and middle initial!

Hopefully he grows up to be a patriot like this man.

[Safrguns]

Brilliant!... I’m sure he’s NEVER hear that one before! lol

[Oztrich Boy]

DDG-1000??? Man, do I feel old. I was on the USS Hoel - DDG-13 a lifetime ago. :=)

But not that old. These ships are in the destroyer series.

Long time ago in the Last World War there was a cruiser series, a destroyer series, abs a destroyer escort series.

Late 40s they added a Destroyer leader (DL) series, in the 50s a Missile Cruiser series, and the 60s saw a missile destroyer series, and a missile destroyer escort series.

In the 70s the DL series was eliminated, the lowest numbered shipd being renumbered into the Missile Destroyer DDG series, the others going into the top of Missile Cruiser CG series with their original numbers.

By this tome the CG series is up top CG-45, the DDG series is up to DDG-46, the original destroyer seres is up to DD-997, the nissile destroyer escort series is not the missile frigate series FFG-61, the destroyer escort/frigate series is at FF-1097.

Now the Ticoderogras DDG-47 up are reclassified into the CG series, and because the first 4 already had numbers assigned, the DDG series goes on from DDG-51.

But because the Zummwaldts aren't really missile destroyers (ie area AAW defence ships) they follow from the destroyer USS-997 Hayler

[Bob]

Yeah, I know that they didn’t use all of the hull numbers through 999. I also was on the Yarnell when it was DLG-17 before being redesignated as CG-17.

[Celtic Conservative]

Just for fun they should invite Chris Pine and Bill Shatner to the Zumwalts commissioning ceremony.

CC

[EternalVigilance]

Wow! Cool...

[Gunslingr3]

Hmmm, direct fire weapons hitting the reverse slopes of their targets. Must be the ammo.

You can reach the other side of a hill with a ballistic trajectory from just about any deck gun, but the Zumwalt will have some extra reach:

"The Advanced Gun System is a 155 mm naval gun, two of which would be installed in each ship. This system consists of an advanced 155 mm gun and the Long Range Land Attack Projectile. This projectile is in fact a rocket with a warhead fired from the AGS gun; the warhead weighs 11 kg / 24 lb and has a circular error of probability of 50 meters. This weapon system will have a range of 83 nautical miles (154 km) and the fully automated storage system will have room for up to 750 rounds."