US Navy DDG 1000 Zumwalt Class
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Hehehe...maybe after serving on the Zumwalt, he will be promoted and will serve as the captain of the USS Enterprise, CVN-80, when it is built in a few years.
Now THAT would be something, Captain James A. Kirk of the warship USS Enterprise!
Great news! The second vessel is making great progress. The PVLS will be excellent, distributing the missiles around the peripheral of the vessel and making the vessel far more survivable, and far more capable of continuing fighting in case of a hit to its missiles.
asif iqbal
Lieutenant General
Zumwalt shows that one aspect of naval operations, that is that naval gun support will be part of over all package well into the 21st century
It's pretty unbelievable that naval gun can fire projectile 60 miles away, this is now going to be used by land army's too, recently a howitzer built by Germany hit targets 33km away
It's a fast very economical way to attack, freeing up the use of Tomahawks or other expensive weapons
It's pretty unbelievable that naval gun can fire projectile 60 miles away, this is now going to be used by land army's too, recently a howitzer built by Germany hit targets 33km away
It's a fast very economical way to attack, freeing up the use of Tomahawks or other expensive weapons
Yes...and once the rail gun (which are already being tested) are ready, the trend will continue on even further...with much more range...up to 200 nautical miles.
[video=youtube;fEbfQOBUAEo]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEbfQOBUAEo[/video]
US NAVY NAVSEA TESTS RAIL GUN
[video=youtube;NWZPp3aEjuM]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWZPp3aEjuM[/video]
GENERAL ATOMICS VIDEO RELEASE IF THE RAIL GUN DEVELOPMENT
Working prototypes will be delivered and begin live-fire testing in 2014. I expect the initial production variety to be available around 2020, and probably installed in the early 2020s.
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Near the end of WWI the German army used a modified naval gun to fire shells over about 100 km at Paris. These guns were fired until they burst. Not very practical.
At the end of WWII the German army had 31 cm caliber smooth bore railway guns firing arrow shell over a range of 100 km, and with rocket assist 160 km. Of course without air cover these guns were of little value.
shen
Senior Member
Not very economical actually. Had the USN picked the alternative Arsenal Ship concept, the plan was to shoot ATACMS missiles out of VLS for shore bombardment. ATACMS has longer range, 500lb payload, far more effective against hardened target, vs 24lb payload for 155mm LRLAP round. ATACMS cost about $1 million each, LRLAP about $50,000. so you do the math. money spent on AGS development could've also been saved and Arsenal Ship with 5000 VLS tubes only cost $500million vs $4 Billion for Zumwalt with 80 VLS.
Exactly.
I favor making a large radar ship out of the new LPD II design, but putting at least 40 PVLS cells on it, a couple of RAMs and a couple of Phalanx so it can also defend itself adequately if necessary. If nothing else, for leakers that get through her CG and DDG screen.
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