Posted on 11/18/2017 4:18:50 PM PST by Mariner
“How is that working out for them? “
Considering the US Navy could take on, and win against all the other world’s navies simultaneously...I’d say it’s working out just great.
Yes, that platform would need a new power plant.
It’s not enough.
“more” is uncalled for and “lethal” may still be an exaggeration
Lasers and railguns, deployed in number about the time fusion drives are.
I still say we should be designing remote operated ships that can submerge and hold VLS missiles and multiple drones.
We control them from an installation similar to NORAD. When needed we surface, fire VLS or launch drones that can also be controlled from the same facility. The savings from both design and operational expense for no crew or a crew of less than 20 alone would pay for the ship within a few years.
OK so a CVN is 500 miles off the coat. How long does it take the missiles to reach the CVN? If it is subsonic about an hour. Wow we get an hour warning. No problem.
It think they are disposable.
Just how do you convey large amounts of data to submerged drones?
This whole program has been a disastrous political boondoggle. Time to cancel it.
I question the effectiveness of their compartmentalization scheme. In the case of both the Fitzgerald and the McCain, collisions with merchantmen crippled both vessels. They could barely make way, lost internal communications, lost sensors. Fire mains ruptured. And those were in cases where the penetration didn’t seem to extend beyond the outermost compartments. Heroic damage control saved the ships.
It seems unlikely that they would remain in anyway combat effective after sustaining that degree of damage, which would be far less than would be sustained from ordnance. True, watertight boundaries would be closed if the ship were at Condition Zebra. What is unclear to me is if this would be sufficient. Arguably the Arleigh Burke class are tougher than either the LCS or the NSC.
That’s why the Navy was investing in the small Whiffleball Polywell fusion device by EMC2 a few years back, but nothing seems to have come of it.
However, there are others (such as Tri Alpha Energy and Lockheed Martin) which are developing small fusion reactors.
Nice screed, but without defining “competent enemy”, not of much use.
The gas turbine is the generator.
You’ve obviously never heard of DDG-51.
>> Wiki - USS Arleigh Burke, named for Admiral Arleigh A. Burke, USN, is the lead ship of the Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyers
Well, there ya’ go. Didn’t realize a lead hull would float. At least it’s pliable.
Well its usa made so I expect it should make it out to sea. It’s not like the French aircraft carrier the Charles DeGaulle that had to be towed back since it’s propeller fell off.
Paging Dr Steven Green, please pickup the white phone in the lobby. Your help is needed for zero point energy & thorium reactors.
I realize it’s the weekend, but seriously, lay off the sauce a little Eugene.
They can’t even seem to take on freighters and tankers, much less warships. The senior guys have been pretty good at taking on prostitutes and bribes, it appears.
Are you saying Burke has armor?
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