USS ZUMWALT, DDG-1000
They are more like $3.5 billion a piece. The R&D for the Radars, the PVLS, and numerous other technological innovations will be used on many other platforms so are not rightly ammortized over these three vessels alone.
Posted on 10/21/2013 6:04:10 AM PDT by C19fan
With its fearsome array of weapons, radar evading silhouette and $7billion price tag, this is one of America's most deadly - and expensive - warships ever. USS Zumwalt - the largest destroyer ever made - is just days away from leaving the specially constructed dry docks and entering the water. Equipped with guns capable of firing warheads 100 miles, stealth features, and engine able to generate enough power to run 78,000 homes, America is hoping it with guarantee its naval supremacy for decades to come.
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They are more like $3.5 billion a piece. The R&D for the Radars, the PVLS, and numerous other technological innovations will be used on many other platforms so are not rightly ammortized over these three vessels alone.
I know the Chinese have been building a navy for at least 5 or 6 years (maybe longer ... ) and to hear we have one new one with maybe two on the way is .... um .... comforting.
Well, three of these on the way.
In the same time frame we have built a dozen more of the Burke class destroyers, which are a match for anything the ChiComms are producing.
They have built 10 new destroyers in that time frame and 20 really modern frigates.
158 crew for a hull the size of a WWII cruiser? No way that's going to go well when the shit hits the fan. The Navy is already realizing that the minimal manning for the LCS is a total cluster just for peacetime steaming, let alone combat ops.
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