[SeekAndFind]

Now, the Zumwalt has also tested its ability to launch missiles. The SM-2 that was test-fired last week is a surface-to-air missile that can also be used against ships, and it showed the Zumwalt can defend itself from an incoming missile.

USS Zumwalt's Armament

[Blurb2350]

I’ve always wondered: Why can’t ships go faster? Is it simply friction and surface tension? I guess so. Those cigarette racers go fast as blazes and scarcely touch the surface as they reach top speed. How fast can a submarine go? Has anyone successfully used cavitation on ocean-going vessels?

[null and void]

Zumwalt launching a SM-2 missle

[PIF]

This was only a test and may not be the direction that DDG-1000 goes, but they are so confident that the Navy is building 3 more of these defenseless death traps

The Navy's Stealth Destroyer Has Fired A Missile For The First Time
After over $26B spent on the program, the launch serves as a glimmer of hope that the tiny Zumwalt class may one day live up to its potential.
ByJoseph Trevithick October 19, 2020

BTW you do know that Forbes is owned by the Chinese?

[davidb56]

they have guns that dont have much range, shells that cost half as much as a missile Each, a bow design that is unstable in heavy seas, engines that are very unreliable and a lot less fire power than a CG, but about the same size. Scrape the damn thing.

[Drew68]

When the Navy reduced its order from roughly thirty ships to just three, the cost of the rounds shot up. A single round of the Long-Range Land Attack Projectile was going to cost almost $1 million — a figure closer to guided missiles than artillery shells.

What a Charlie Foxtrot.

Why build even a single one?

[Spirochete]

The superstructure looks like a casemate ironclad.

[MV=PY]

Animagraffs calls this thing a “deestroyer.”

If they can’t spell, should one wonder about the accuracy of the rest of the info?

I know some folks here will call me a grammar Nazi, but I’m becoming convinced that we are living in Idiocracy.

[Leaning Right]

One reason Germany lost WW 2 is that they were obsessed with making complicated, high-tech devices while everyone else was making reliable, lower-tech devices.

Just sayin’.

[doorgunner69]

Got any ammo for that fancy gun yet?

[PAR35]

Chunk the 155s overboard and slot in some smaller, proven 5” guns. Or figure out if some army 155s can be made salt water resistant at a reasonable cost (probably not).

Submarines used to submerge with exposed 4 and 5 inch guns with no issue. Some US subs even had 6’ (152 mm) deck guns. Japanese used 5.5 inch guns (140 mm) on their subs. Conditions on the Zums can’t be any worse.

The problem doesn’t really seem so hard to solve. Someone didn’t want a solution.

[M Kehoe]

Hi.

Did the missle hit anything?

5.56mm

[blam]

Underwater speed record

This was my home in 1963.