Did the writer from the Daily Beast even bother to do some research? Tumblehome was the standard design for wooden ships of the line and the French extensively used tumblehome designs for their pre-dreadnaught capital ships.
1 posted on
10/22/2014 6:38:16 AM PDT by
C19fan
To: C19fan
no kidding
The Nimitz Class, with a full load displacement of 97,000 tonne, is the world’s largest aircraft carrier.
2 posted on
10/22/2014 6:44:00 AM PDT by
FreeAtlanta
(Liberty or Big Government - you can't have both.)
To: C19fan
First and foremost: can the thing even stay afloat?You MUST be kidding me? Who were the engineers on this project? A bunch of Head Start graduates? The winner of the National Milk Carton Sailboat regatta? A Harvard graduate?
To: C19fan
The writer is making like he had never heard or seen an electric motor. Typical modern “journalist”.
4 posted on
10/22/2014 6:47:57 AM PDT by
Fred Hayek
(The Democratic Party is now the operational arm of the CPUSA)
To: C19fan
First and foremost: can the thing even stay afloat?
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What’s important is that all the contractor, cronies and lobbyists made a fortune.
7 posted on
10/22/2014 6:52:48 AM PDT by
Moonman62
(The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
To: C19fan
massive 155mm guns Since when are 6" guns 'massive'?
Yet another historically illiterate journalist.
9 posted on
10/22/2014 6:53:24 AM PDT by
slowhandluke
(It's hard to be cynical enough in this age.)
To: C19fan
I sadly took the time to read to the end of the OP. Apparently it is new technology to run motors (turbines) to generators and then to propulsion motors. Many commercial ships, subs and several other designs do that and have for a century. When you pass a freight train today marvel at the locomotive design because apparently it is new. So are the many peaker power plants that do exactly that and have for 20 years.
To: C19fan
Actually, I seem to remember some rather bothersome outcomes in the Coast Guard’s Deepwater Vessel developments....something about hulls breaking or could break or something like that. So this, to me, wouldn’t automatically be relegated to ‘wooden ship’ problems.
13 posted on
10/22/2014 6:58:06 AM PDT by
Gaffer
To: C19fan
Why research when you can bash something you don’t understand?
20 posted on
10/22/2014 7:42:14 AM PDT by
Blood of Tyrants
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To: C19fan
This is the platform for deployable railguns. This will be bad news in a fight.
To: C19fan
The hull looks like it is upside down. Unlike a normal ship, the bow slopes upward from the water up to the deck. 
* sigh *
To: C19fan
The M1 Abrams was under constant attack by the media, that said that it was a boondoggle tank that couldn’t fight, especially in the desert.
23 posted on
10/22/2014 8:29:47 AM PDT by
ansel12
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To: C19fan
Anyone disturbed by the nomenclature? A 15,000 ton ship with 6 inch guns is a CRUISER
25 posted on
10/22/2014 9:48:16 AM PDT by
rmlew
("Mosques are our barracks, minarets our bayonets, domes our helmets, the believers our soldiers.")
To: C19fan
brings a new untried “tumblehome” hull designUSS Brooklyn (CA-3) from the 19th century. 
42 posted on
10/23/2014 12:22:28 PM PDT by
aomagrat
(Gun owners who vote for democrats are too stupid to own guns.)
To: C19fan
44 posted on
10/23/2014 12:25:34 PM PDT by
Brother Cracker
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