Posted on 05/15/2016 7:06:35 AM PDT by sukhoi-30mki
When the emphasis is on making large quantities of high-quality weapons, there are fewer money-making opportunities for the big boys. The production gets divided up among multiple companies by competitive bid, and the real valuable information is in techniques for ensuring quality in a cost-effective way, which is less easy to steal.
Wonder what his middle name is.
Yeah. The M4 Sherman Ronson: “Lights First Every Time”.
And still, we overwhelmed the Krauts.
I’ve been waiting for that.
You just have to wonder if they will be given red shirts. :-)
Sounds like Soviet propaganda right there, pal.
Just kidding. You're right. The T-34 in particular was a good tank. One problem the Germans had was that they fiddled around with many different designs with complicated mechanics, instead of picking one and mass-producing it. A mass-produced simplified Panther would have been a game-changer (or should I say, a game-delayer).
Rough Seas cause the Cloaking device to automatically kick in.
Hell of a target there boys!!! Let’s put a round through that barn section in the middle!!
At least they did not name the ship “Hot Pants.”
A destroyer is our “Largest warship”?
Another problem nobody is talking about is the reduced crew size.
Sure, fewer crew makes it far cheaper to keep a ship in the water during peacetime, but when the excrement hits the ventilator, you need twice as many folks aboard so the ship can continue fighting while damage control is in process.
The bullets don’t stop flying while you’re trying to keep the ship afloat, and you can’t fight if the crew is all shoring bulkheads and patching holes.
Sherman’s major fault was poor armor. BUT the Sherman was easy to fix and put back in the field again. Germany’s monsters required too much tech. support.
Looks more like a submarine than a surface vessel.
I guess in one way or the other it lives up to it’s tag of TIN CAN!
If the images posted are accurate, am I missing the Phalanx systems? I don’t see any.
The Zumwalt-class destroyer is a class of United States Navy guided missile destroyers designed as multi-mission stealth ships with a focus on land attack. The class emerged from the previous DD-21 vessel program. The program was previously known as the "DD(X)". The class is multi-role and designed for surface warfare, anti-aircraft warfare, and naval gunfire support. They take the place of battleships in filling the former congressional mandate for naval fire support, though the requirement was reduced to allow them to fill this role. The vessels' appearance has been compared to that of the historic ironclad warship.
The lead ship is named Zumwalt for Admiral Elmo Zumwalt, and carries the hull number DDG-1000. Originally 32 ships were planned, with the $9.6 billion research and development costs spread across the class, but the quantity was reduced to 24, then to 7, and finally to 3, greatly increasing the cost-per-ship.
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