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Navy's newest Destroyer
grumpygy
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I can see it now. A 3 billion $ destroyer will render itself useless to save a 10 cent fuse by blowing first.
The third planned Zumwalt-Class destroyer will be named the USS Lyndon B. Johnson.
That's almost as bad as the guy in the video mispronouncing the name of the ship.
3.8 billion???? That would pay everyones health care coverage for a few years!
Yes, but the Navy was forced to cut back their original order for 32 down to just 3. Lets see; 32 of those tubs at $3.8 billion a pop is what, $121 billion, give or take a million bucks. You have to understand that we need those ships (and many more like them) so that we can sail them around the world, hopefully getting into harms way, in order to make other countries fear us!
The third planned Zumwalt-Class destroyer will be named the USS Lyndon B. Johnson.
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100% electric?
I can see it now. A 3 billion $ destroyer will render itself useless to save a 10 cent fuse by blowing first.
Why? It has to generate tremendous electric power as the new navy guns of the 21st century are electro-magnetic, firing from open breech, at speeds over 8000 ft per second! I have personally seen the next generation gun being planned and tested at Dahlgren. Just like the debate in the US in the 1930's to build new aircraft carriers.....big floating targets not worth the dought it was said at the time.....but we really needed them at Midway! Just like those ships, these ships are spectactular and expensive......and I hope we don't need them but if we do, I for one am glad that we are building them....just wish we could afford more actually!
The longest chain of electrical extension cables measured 16,000 m (52,493.4 ft) and was comprised of 640 individual extension cables by MVV Energie AG (Germany) in Mannheim, Germany on 1 October 2006.
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http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/records-3000/longest-chain-of-electrical-extension-cables/
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Going to all electric will cut maintenance time, which means fewer men needed onboard. That will turn into less money spent on everything related to running a ship, right down to the amount of food needed for a deployment.