US Navy DDG 1000 Zumwalt Class

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Merz said ... “It does have 80 vertical launch cells. Those are the larger variety cell, so that opens up opportunities for advanced development on our weapons side also. ..."

so what NOW is in that VLS? empty air, I assume

Dec 3, 2017
am wondering what's the status of Mk57 VLS, as I now briefly used google to find nothing recent except bashing, and the NavalTechnology article about some BAE contract is dated 22 August 2012 (twenty-twelve) so it's not even worth linking now

what did I miss?
 
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TerraN_EmpirE

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The VLS system works @Jura , They can be loaded and used.
you yourself reported back in January that "each ship in the class fields 80 Mk 54 vertical launch system cells that are capable of fielding the Tomahawk Land Attack Missile, Standard Missile-2 and the anti-air Evolved SeaSparrow Missile (ESSM),"

but the gun system is a major huge issue and a total mess.
I also expect that they could take a standard 155mm round from the existing modernized 155mm guns and use thos RAP and even the BLEED technology to give them the range they need.
Sadly it doesn't work like that. The 155mm Howitzer rounds from either the M777 or M109A7 are not rated or compatible with the AGS due to the autoloader and differences between the systems.
Basically the program was sabotaged by not either seeking a more conventional option like a modified 5 inch or trying to find a way to reduce the costs of the ammo and gun.
 
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you yourself reported back in January that "each ship in the class fields 80 Mk 54 vertical launch system cells that are capable of fielding the Tomahawk Land Attack Missile, Standard Missile-2 and the anti-air Evolved SeaSparrow Missile (ESSM),"

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the CYA "info" I indeed reposted
#711 Jura, Jan 12, 2018

says: Mark fifty-four, while
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: Advanced Vertical Launch (AVLS) cells

vaporware?
 

TerraN_EmpirE

Tyrant King
well @Jura You might be right. It seems that the Zumwalt isn't going on any real missions for a while. She and her sisters are in a extended period of waiting.
And it's Mk 57 but you don't care.
The Navy's Stealthy USS Zumwalt Will Fire its First Missile Next Year
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The US Navy’s stealthy destroyer will fire an Evolved Sea Sparrow Missile and SM-2 in 2019

By Kris Osborn

Navy developers of the new high-tech, stealthy USS Zumwalt destroyer are widening the mission envelope for the ship, exploring new ammunition for its guns and preparing to fire its first missiles next year.

The US Navy’s stealthy destroyer will fire an Evolved Sea Sparrow Missile and SM-2 in 2019 from its Mk 57 Vertical Launch Systems, marking the first time the new ship will fire weapons as part of its ongoing combat activation process.

The Navy is exploring a new range of weapons for its stealthy USS Zumwalt destroyer to better prepare the ship for future warfare against technically advanced enemies.

“The Navy is in the process of updating required documents to support new surface strike requirements,” according to Navy statements briefed at the service’s Sea Air and Space Annual Symposium by Zumwalt program manager Capt. Kevin Smith.

The new ship, engineered with a sleek, radar-evading design, was initially conceived of in terms of primarily engineering a shallow-water land attack platform. While the ship was envisioned as a multi-mission platform at its inception, current emerging threats and new technology have led Navy strategists to scope a wider strategic view for the ship.

In particular, given the rapid evolution of targeting technology and advanced long-range precision weaponry, particularly those being developed by near-peer adversaries, the strategic calculus informing maritime warfare is changing quickly.

Long-range strike technology, coupled with advanced seekers, electromagnetic weapons and higher-resolution sensors, quite naturally, create the need for greater stand-off ranges; such a technical phenomenon is a key element of the Navy’s current “distributed lethality” strategy designed to better prepare the Navy for modern, open blue-water combat operations against a technologically advanced adversary.

Part of the initial vision for this ship, which is still very much part of its equation, is to engineer a ship able to detect mines. For this reason, the ship has been architected with a shallow draft, enabling it to operate closer to shore than most deep water surface ships.

At the same time, threat assessment experts, strategists and Navy weapons developers also heavily emphasize the growing need for the ship to succeed in the event of major nation-state force-on-force maritime warfare.

In preparation for all of this, the ship is now going through combat activation in San Diego, Calif., to pave the way toward preparing the weapons systems for the ship’s planned move to operational status in 2020, Navy officials say.

This process will also carefully refine many of the ship’s other technologies, such as its advanced Integrated Power System and Total Ship Computing Environment, multi-function, volume-search SPY-3 radar and sonar systems.

The activation process for USS Zumwalt development includes many technology assessments, such as calm and heavy weather examinations to further verify the ship’s stability.

Many of the weapons systems are being assessed and refined on board a specially configured unmanned test ship. The remote- controlled vessel continues to be involved in integration testing with the SM-2 and other weapons.

The USS Zumwalt is built with a high-tech, long-range, BAE-built Advanced Gun System designed to find and hit targets with precision from much farther ranges than existing deck-mounted ship guns.

Most deck mounted 5-inch guns currently on Navy ships are limited to firing roughly 8-to-10 miles at targets within the horizon or what’s called line of sight. The Advanced Gun System, however, is being developed to fire rounds beyond-the-horizon at targets more than three times that distance.

The Navy had been planning to have the gun fire a Long-Range Land Attack Projectile, but is now exploring different ammunition options for, among other things, cost issues, Navy leaders said.

The Navy is also currently evaluating potential SM-6 integration for the USS Zumwalt. The SM-6 has been a fast-evolving weapon for the Navy – as it has expanded its mission envelope to include air-defense, ballistic missile defense and even offensive use as an anti-ship surface attack weapon.

In addition, utilizing its active seeker, the SM-6 is a key part of Naval Integrated Fire Control – Counter Air, or NIFC-CA; NIFC-CA uses fire-control technology to link Aegis radar with an airborne relay sensor to detect and destroy approaching enemy threats from beyond the horizon.

With an active, dual-mode seeker able to send an electromagnetic “ping” forward from the missile itself, the SM-6 is able to better adjust to moving targets, according to Raytheon developers.

Giving commanders more decision-making time to effectively utilize layered ship defenses when under attack is an integral part of the rationale for NIFC-CA.

The ship also fires Vertical Launch Anti-Submarine Rockets, or ASROCs. ASROCs are 16-feet long with a 14-inch diameter; a rocket delivers the torpedo at very high speeds to a specific point in the water at which point it turns on its sensors and searches for an enemy submarine. Wade Knudson, DDG 1000 program manager, Raytheon, has told Warrior in recent years through the course of several interviews.

The ship is also built with Mk 57 a vertical launch tubes which are engineered into the hull near the perimeter of the ship.

Called Peripheral Vertical Launch System, the tubes are integrated with the hull around the ship’s periphery in order to ensure that weapons can keep firing in the event of damage. Instead of having all of the launch tubes in succession or near one another, the DDG 1000 has spread them out in order to mitigate risk in the event of attack, developers said.

In total, there are 80 launch tubes built into the hull of the DDG 1000; the Peripheral Vertical Launch System involves a collaborative effort between Raytheon and BAE Systems.

Also, the launchers are especially designed with software such that it can accommodate a wide range of weapons; the launchers can house one SM-2, SM-3 or SM-6, ASROCs and up to four ESSMs due to the missile’s smaller diameter, Raytheon developers explain.

In 2016, the new ship was formally delivered to the Navy at Bath Iron Works in Portland, Maine. The ship was formally commissioned in October of that year.
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At the moment it's in freeze. A product of ambition that was attacked by budget and is on hold because penny wise pound foolish.
 

TerraN_EmpirE

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US Navy takes ownership of its second stealth destroyer
By: David B. Larter   1 hour ago
stealth destroyers that will make up the class, which was truncated repeatedly all the way from a planned buy of 32 at the outset. The lead ship, Zumwalt, was delivered in May 2016.

“Delivery of DDG-1001 marks the culmination of years of dedication and hard work from our Navy and industry team,” said Capt. Kevin Smith, the program manager for DDG-1000, in a statement. “We have incorporated many lessons learned from DDG 1000 and are proud of the end result. DDG 1001 will be a tremendous asset to the Navy.”

Michael Monsoor is named for Master-at-Arms 2nd Class (SEAL) Michael Monsoor, who was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor after jumping on a grenade to save his teammates in Ramadi, Iraq, during a mission in 2006.



The third ship, the Lyndon B. Johnson, is still under construction at Bath.

The class was given a new mission earlier this year, according to budget justification documents submitted in February.

The Navy added Raytheon’s SM-6 missile to the 610-foot behemoth and changed its mission from primarily a land-attack platform to a ship killer and strike platform.

In testimony last week, the Navy’s top requirements officer, Vice Adm. Bill Merz, told lawmakers the change in mission was prompted by delays in the ship’s Advanced Gun System.

The AGS, in conjunction with the Long-Range Land Attack Projectile, was supposed to fire a round more than 80 nautical miles. The Navy canceled the projectile after the cost per round increased to more than $800,000 per round. Furthermore, the system was also failing to achieve the range it wanted out of the system, Merz said.

“Even at the high cost, we still weren’t really getting what we had asked for,” he said. “So what we’ve elected to do is to separate the gun effort from the ship effort because we really got to the point where now we’re holding up the ship.”
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Navy Accepts Partial Delivery of Zumwalt-class DDG Michael Monsoor
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... Capt. Kevin Smith, DDG-1000 program manager, said in a Navy news release.
“We have incorporated many lessons learned from DDG-1000 and are proud of the end result. DDG-1001 will be a tremendous asset to the Navy.”


tremendous asset indeed
 

dtulsa

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FYI read earlier today the Armey is developing a new gun and round for its 155mm it's range is 70kilometers and uses ran jet tech reported from military mavens per fox news maybe just maybe the navy should take a look it may not have the range the navy wants but if and that's really a big if it can be used in the AGS they could be of some use mind I'm not holding my breath on it though
 
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