US Navy DDG 1000 Zumwalt Class

[strehl]

Finally. Official US Navy video.

 

[Bernard]

Is it just me, or this boat is so futuristic looking that these photos look almost photo shopped!

 

[kwaigonegin]

Is it just me, or this boat is so futuristic looking that these photos look almost photo shopped!

They sure do but they are real it's just that like you said she is so new and shiny and the seas are so calm it looks staged!... not that it matters EVEN if they were PS we know for a FACT she went out to sea yesterday.

 

[FORBIN]

A true alien in the sea, amaazing !

 

[Jeff Head]

Here's a higher resolution video of the USS Zumwalt, DDG-1000, at sea in the North Atlantic on her first sea trials.

 

[Jeff Head]

...we know for a FACT she went out to sea yesterday.

Yes we do.

Here she is leaving the mouth of the Kennebec River yesterday and heading out into the Atlantic off of Maine.



And here's some of her doing more maneuvering exercises and trials in the Atlantic today off of Maine.

 

[Jeff Head]

I now have a BUNCH of photos of the Zumwalt departure and trials on my:

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[Jura The idiot]

Here's a higher resolution video of the USS Zumwalt, DDG-1000, at sea in the North Atlantic on her first sea trials.

among other things, I'm confused by the reflection of the helo off the water (what I put into the red ellipse:

 

[Equation]

That is just the helo's shadow casting at an angle from the sun when someone aboard took that video.

 

[asif iqbal]

Someone seeing the Zumwalt for the first must think it's fake or something out of Star Wars