[Incorrigible]

[Rebelbase]

Whew. That is a relief. It’s a good thing seas never get over 20’ in height.

[brownsfan]

Did Master Xi approve this?

[ptsal]

Hope the navy has the ballast calculations worked out.

[Red Badger]

What was once old is new again!.................

[PAR35]

Nothing wrong with the design (except cost). Now, if someone could just figure out how to fit a working gun on it.

[moovova]

Elmo would be disappointed.

[Magnatron]

This puppy would take some seas that would make your heart stop. Spent some serious roller coaster time in the North Sea, Cape of Good Hope, and Cape Horn -- along with a nasty hurricane in the Atlantic. It did all of this with a crack across the O-1 deck (later replaced with an expansion joint on newer vessels). Walking on the walls, eating cold food, and watching breakers wash down the passageways added to the excitement...

[Mariner]

Yeah, but a deployed ship will eventually face 40ft seas.

15-20ft is not a valid test.

[Lurker]

$8,600,000,000 each.

L

[Towed_Jumper]

I’m glad the Zumwalt appears to be sea-worthy and is “stealthy.” It nevertheless remains a butt-ugly looking ship.

[wastedyears]

Not to rag on the military, but they seem to have long thrown away the KISS principle. Few and incredibly expensive projects, while simple, fast and relatively inexpensive projects ended with WWII.

I bet Trump could have had 20 destroyers designed, built, tested and deployed in 10 years for that same amount of money.

[SuperLuminal]

I’m so old that only destroyers that have done everything in battle and very often survived are worth talking about...

The Fletcher class destroyer was the toughest fighting, non-aircraft-carrier, ship ever built...

They were a tribute to an America (a patriotic population and a manufacturing base that no longer exists) that could mass produce those babies in shipyards everywhere...

My mother was trained as a welder and worked (12 hours a day, 6-days a week) on their construction during the war... She was also a war casualty, as the rest of her short post-war life was spent fighting illnesses caused by the working conditions...