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ACuriousPLAFan

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Related, this is an interest write up from Brian Potter, who suggests that the US never had a competitive commercial shipbuilding industry during the entire cold war. The standard narrative is that Chinese, Korean and Japanese shipbuilders are so effective because they can pivot between a huge commercial industry and military clients yet this was never the case in the US. What's not clear to me is why shipbuilding has atrophied so hard since the end of the cold war if Americans were never particularly skilled (or how they produced such a huge fleet in the first place). Simply less money now?

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To put it simply, the United States fvcked their own shipbuilding a$$es thanks to their 1920 Jones Act. That Act literally made their shipbuilding industry "dependent on the sky to feed" (靠天吃饭).

There have been multiple attempts throughout decades at repealing the Act, but hey - Just say the word "CHYNAAA!!!", and you have the answer on why the Act will never go away.

Just ask CSBA.

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TerraN_EmpirE

TerraN_EmpirE

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Andy1974 said:
They lengthened the hull and modified the bow too.
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Exactly. It has the general profile and power plant but it’s about as much the same ship class as a the Presidential Limousine is a Cadillac Escalade.
Atomicfrog said:
So that frigate will become bigger than the Burke if we let these out of a leash... The use of the FREMM hull was probably to not have that problem. I see bigger naval disaster at the horizon.
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The Italian version of the FREMM is already 6600 tons, the Constellation barring any change will be closer to 7200 tons, Type 26 (British ) is 7000 tons Burke block one is 8000 tons. As ship generations progress they get bigger. A world war 2 USN Frigate was about 2400 tons. Range, weapons, systems have weight These ships are getting more and more Star Trek every generation and that means they are getting bigger too.

They tried to end run the R&D of the hull for a new ship design. Based on the assumption made by Congress that one Frigate is just as good as another.
There was no available ship that meet the requirements and even if one had it would still have to be modified to meet American production. Even existing Aegis based frigates don’t because the Navy wants a new generation of the system in play.
 
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SlothmanAllen

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New AtGM?

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The War Zone has an article on it. The military simply refers to it as the "670" in the press release associated with it. The weapon was launched from a Bradley Fighting Vehicle.

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From what can be seen in the image, the 670 is propelled, at least immediately after launch, by a small rocket motor at the rear of its broadly cylindrical body. It also has three pop-out grid fins at the tail end. Whether or not it has other control surfaces that are not seen in their deployed positions is unknown, but there are open sections visible toward the front end of the body.
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The 670 also has a rounded white-colored nose, but whether that might be a radome or seeker of some kind, or just an aerodynamic fairing or something else, is not known. There are also at least three distinct sections visible along one side of the body, which might be modular and potentially dispensable payloads, such as cluster munitions or countermeasures of some type.
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The overall configuration of the 670 is distinctly different from any version of the BGM-71 known to exist, including modern types that are no longer wire-guided. However, since it can be fired from a Bradley’s TOW missile launcher, it does need to have at least a similar form factor. Current generation TOW missiles are just under four feet long and six inches in diameter. Certain variants have probes that extend around a foot from the front of the nose after launch to help defeat
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and otherwise ensure optimal detonation. You can read more about the full TOW missile family
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SlothmanAllen

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Unfortunately, I don't really have much info here as the article is behind a pay wall and seems exclusive to Aviation Week.

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Kratos is developing a hypersonic drone, adding to a growing portfolio of high-speed vehicles, CEO Eric DeMarco told Aviation Week in a March 18 interview. All further details of the project—including the design, performance and schedule—cannot yet be released, DeMarco said. The mystery vehicle can...
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I guess time will tell what type of platform this will be.

EDIT: Unless someone has access to Aviation Week and can copy the article over!
 
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