[sukhoi-30mki]

What you get for $7 billion dollars: A guide to the USS Zumwalt's unique features

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2128986/The-7-billion-dollar-warship-built-maintain-American-naval-supremacy-China-21st-Century.html#ixzz1rtFfIQXL

[Mariner]

This is little more than a silly-assed waste of money when good designs are available NOW at $500mil a copy.

[ThunderSleeps]

On paper each of the powerful vessels costs $3.8 billion a piece, but with research and development costs thrown in the full bill is nearer to $7 billion.

Of course if you build more of them, then you amortize the R&D costs over more ships and the per-ship cost goes back down.

[Jeff Head]

Here's my page reagrding the Zumwalts.

I hope we build more than the three. The decision to cut the numbers drastically is why the cost has run up. A lot of new expensive technology now spread out over only three ships.

DDG 1000, USS ZUMWALT

[mylife]

Bath Iron works does good work, but Maine is an expensive place to perform work.

I’d bet this Collins/Snowe boondoggle

[The Duke]

If conceived under the Obama administration then you can bet it’s a design that came straight from China.

[AlmaKing]

Looks like an Ironclad from the Civil War.

[Tucker39]

Not a word about its means of propulsion. Nuke?

[mylife]

Bath Iron Works knows how to build some Frigates and Destroyers

[Theoria]

Dang. I’m glad it has radar and a hull.

[Ronin]

Does it submerge? Seriously, from an angle the hull form of that beast tends to remind me of an old fleet boat somehow.

[mamelukesabre]

Sheesh, that is odd looking.

It almost looks submersible.

[RhoTheta]

How does this thing protect itself? Will it be so expensive that the Navy won’t risk deploying them for fear they might lose one?

[sjmjax]

Looks kind of familar.... Guess what's old is new!

[tumblindice]

“it will have half the crew”

I read the book `Das Boot’ and there the U-boat commander wishes he didn’t need a crew, that it was just him against another captain.

[Dawggie]

It’s an expensive target.

[tumblindice]

Featuring a radical wave-piercing hull known as a ‘tumblehome’,

Say no more—I like it.

[mylife]

Featuring a radical wave-piercing hull known as a 'tumblehome',

There's gonna be puking galore on that ship. ☺

[Hardraade]

Thought this thing was supposed to have the railgun?

[Sea Parrot]

[”Named the U.S.S Zumwalt, the $7 billion guided-missile destroyer is at the cutting edge of technology and now deemed vital for defence following President Obama’s Asia-Pacific pivot.”]

Oh my, Obama pivots, and immediatly they start building the worlds most expensive warship?

This ship has been in the works for years, Obammy had naught to do with it.

[Minutemen]

The Chinese will have a knock-off made before we ever get ours off the drawing board.