US Navy DDG 1000 Zumwalt Class

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Some great photos of the Zumwalt.. which is now in one piece. Hi-res photos in the link. Just start clicking!

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One of the most striking warships ever built is coming together in the little coastal town of Bath, Maine. The major components of the 610-foot-long ZUMWALT (DDG 1000) — a “destroyer” in name only — have been assembled this winter at the General Dynamics shipyard of Bath Iron Works, and the ship’s stark, tumblehome hull and superstructure is now together. These views were taken on Jan. 15, 2013, shortly after the
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– built at Huntington Ingalls in Gulfport, Miss. — was
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onto the hull.
The ZUMWALT will displace more than 15,600 tons full load, bigger than most World War II heavy cruisers. Eighty feet wide with a draft of more than 27 feet, the ship’s turbine generators will produce 78 megawatts of power, one of the largest electrical loads ever put to sea. The ship’s integrated power system will allow much of that power to be directed as needed, perhaps to future laser or directed energy weapons.
Construction of the ZUMWALT officially began in February 2009, and the ship is to be launched into the Kennebec River this summer. Delivery is to take place later in 2014, but it will likely be another two or three years before the ship and its host of new-technology systems is ready for service.
Two more ships of the class, the MICHAEL MONSOOR (DDG 1001) and LYNDON B. JOHNSON (DDG 1002), also are under construction at Bath. No more ships of this class are currently planned.
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Jeff Head

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Some great photos of the Zumwalt.. which is now in one piece. Hi-res photos in the link. Just start clicking!

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Very, very nice. Like with the LHA America, this is a day long awaited. Cant't wait to see her launched this summer and making her own way.

Just makes you proud of our US Navy...forging ahead!

At 610 feet and almost 16,000 tons....these ARE the new Cruisers...regardless of what they call them. They will be great vessels and will perform thier role wonderfully. But also GREAT test beds for lasers, rail guns and other future technologies!

Lookout future...here we come!
 

no_name

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Would a Zumwalt model be interesting to make?
Somehow I feel there won't be too many separate parts that you'd need to glue together :p
 

Jeff Head

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Would a Zumwalt model be interesting to make?
Somehow I feel there won't be too many separate parts that you'd need to glue together :p
Oh yes, she is on my list. Just as soon as one is made in 1/350 scale. There could be quite a few parts acutally. The two 155 mm turrets, particularly with turning and elevating guns, the twp 57 mm guns, the PVLS, probably numerous small sensors and antennae on that large deck house. The helicopters and the helo hangars all detailed up. Railing where necessary. Yes she could be quite the model. I hope one is made soon.
 
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luhai

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looking at the actual picture, I they should have just made it a submarine with nice radar and VLS. The tumblehome hull profile really resembles the giant Japanese submarines of WWII.
 

Air Force Brat

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looking at the actual picture, I they should have just made it a submarine with nice radar and VLS. The tumblehome hull profile really resembles the giant Japanese submarines of WWII.

Actually I am slightly ashamed of myself [just slightly], I think Monitor and Merrimac, but I don't know which is which, I guess I will disappoint bd [I think carrier guys hate subs naturally], but I do remember that the Hunley is a sub, incidentally they raised the Hunley, quite a feat, and if I recall it seems they were keeping her wet until they could figure out how to preserve her?? Amazing vessels! Brat
 

luhai

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Actually the ship's design does throw back to late 19th century. DDG1000 does look like this french cruiser with the super structure replaced by an submarine conning tower.

Cruiser Le Dupuy de Lome
cuirasse-le-dupuy-de-lome-gd.jpg

However, the peril of this design is that sea keeping is a problem in bad weather. Which why monitor and tumblehome hull are abandoned in the 20th century.

USS Monadnock
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TerraN_EmpirE

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Actually I am slightly ashamed of myself [just slightly], I think Monitor and Merrimac, but I don't know which is which, I guess I will disappoint bd [I think carrier guys hate subs naturally], but I do remember that the Hunley is a sub, incidentally they raised the Hunley, quite a feat, and if I recall it seems they were keeping her wet until they could figure out how to preserve her?? Amazing vessels! Brat
brat Monitor looked like the sole of someones shoe with a can of tuna sitting on top. Virginia aka Merrimac resembled a flat iron with quote rises and that most quaint of drives the pattle wheel.
 

Jeff Head

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Actually the ship's design does throw back to late 19th century...look likes this french cruiser with the super structure replaced by an submarine conning tower.

However, the peril of this design is that sea keeping is a problem in bad weather. Which why monitor and tumblehome hull are abandoned in the 20th century.
This design has supposedly addressed those issues and will keep very well in higher sea states.

Several innovations are designed into the hull from what we have learned over the last 100 years, and when you couple those with her displacement, her beam to length to draft ratios...we are told that she is going to do very well and that the large, 1/5 powered scale model they built of her and tested showed as much. This was a 133-foot model located at the Naval Surface Warfare Center Carderock Division, Acoustic Research Detachment in Bayview, Idaho and operated on Lake Pend Oreill.

Advanced_Electric_Ship_Demonstrator.jpg

Time will tell...but if she does show a good sea keeping ability (and I believe she will), then her stealth, firepower, and capabilities are going to be a very strong addition to any ARG or any SAG for that matter. But I expect we will almost exclusively see these vessels accompanying large ARGs, filling the role of the battleship for ground support, and of a DDG for air and ASW protection capabilities.
 
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