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Lieutenant General
navyreco said:
12th San Antonio class LPD Order Will Allow HII to Keep Construction Line Open Until LX(R)
Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII) announced today that its Ingalls Shipbuilding division has received a $200 million, cost-plus-fixed-fee advance procurement contract from the U.S. Navy for LPD 28, the 12th amphibious transport dock of the San Antonio (LPD 17) class. The funds will be used to purchase long-lead-time material and major equipment, including main engines, diesel generators, deck equipment, shafting, propellers, valves and other long-lead systems.
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LPD 28 is considered a transition vessel between LPD 17 class and the future LX(R): This new San Antonio class order will allow HII to keep the LPD 17 production line going and filling a gap until the future LX(R) amphibious ship program comes online in a few years.
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Interesting

This could lead to 11+12+11 fleet for amphibious units that's LHA+LPD+LXR total 34

Or it could mean the 12 x LPD forces a cut in the LXR to 10 to maintain 33 units

Or it could mean 10+12+11 to cut one LHA

It remains to be seen what they will end up with but 11+12+11 is most likely

Also if the LXR uses the LPD hull reduces cost they could have 11+12+12 to have 35 units in total

So minimum is 33 max could be as high as 35
 
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CTVNews said:
BATH, Maine -- The largest destroyer ever built for the U.S. Navy headed out to sea for the first time Monday, departing from shipbuilder Bath Iron Works and carefully navigating the winding Kennebec River before reaching the open ocean where the ship will undergo sea trials.

More than 200 shipbuilders, sailors and residents gathered to watch as the futuristic 600-foot, 15,000-ton USS Zumwalt glided past Fort Popham, accompanied by tugboats.

Kelley Campana, a Bath Iron Works employee, said she had goose bumps and tears in her eyes.

"This is pretty exciting. It's a great day to be a shipbuilder and to be an American," she said. "It's the first in its class. There's never been anything like it. It looks like the future."

Larry Harris, a retired Raytheon employee who worked on the ship, watched it depart from Bath.

"It's as cool as can be. It's nice to see it underway," he said. "Hopefully, it will perform as advertised."

Bath Iron Works will be testing the ship's performance and making tweaks this winter. The goal is to deliver it to the Navy sometime next year.

"We are absolutely fired up to see Zumwalt get underway. For the crew and all those involved in designing, building, and readying this fantastic ship, this is a huge milestone," the ship's skipper, Navy Capt. James Kirk, said before the ship departed.

The ship has electric propulsion, new radar and sonar, powerful missiles and guns, and a stealthy design to reduce its radar signature. Advanced automation will allow the warship to operate with a much smaller crew size than current destroyers.

All of that innovation has led to construction delays and a growing price tag. The Zumwalt, the first of three ships in the class, will cost at least $4.4 billion.

The ship looks like nothing ever built at Bath Iron Works.

The inverse bow juts forward to slice through the waves. Sharp angles deflect enemy radar signals. Radar and antennas are hidden in a composite deckhouse.

The builder sea trials will answer any questions of seaworthiness for a ship that utilizes a type of hull associated with pre-dreadnought battleships from a century ago.

Critics say the "tumblehome" hull's sloping shape makes it less stable than conventional hulls, but it contributes to the ship's stealth and the Navy is confident in the design.

Eric Wertheim, author and editor of the U.S. Naval Institute's "Guide to Combat Fleets of the World," said there's no question the integration of so many new systems from the electric drive to the tumblehome hull carries some level of risk.

Operational concerns, growing costs and fleet makeup led the Navy to truncate the 32-ship program to three ships, he said. With only three ships, the class of destroyers could become something of a technology demonstration project, he said.
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Beautiful vessel. she's going to be a keeper.
 
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kwaigonegin

kwaigonegin

Colonel
Bernard said:
Is it just me, or this boat is so futuristic looking that these photos look almost photo shopped!
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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.
 
TerraN_EmpirE

TerraN_EmpirE

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Army to stop putting Social Security numbers on dog tags
Staff report3:44 p.m. EST December 8, 2015

Soldiers' Social Security numbers will no longer be part of their dog tags, the Army announced Tuesday.

The change, which some have argued is long overdue, is the first update to the ubiquitous identification tags in more than 40 years.

A soldier's Social Security number will be replaced by a 10-digit, randomly-generated number. The change will be implemented on an as-needed basis, Michael Klemowski, Soldiers Programs branch chief at Army Human Resources Command, said in a
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"This change is not something where soldiers need to run out and get new tags made," he said. "We are focusing first on the personnel who are going to deploy. If a soldier is going to deploy, they are the first ones that need to have the new ID tags."

The change is in accordance with new Defense Department guidelines calling for less use of Social Security numbers. It also comes on the heels of several data breaches that compromised the personal information of
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, government employees and veterans.

Removing Social Security numbers from dog tags is one of the ways the Army is trying to safeguard personal information, Klemowski said.

"If you find a pair of lost ID tags, you can pretty much do anything with that person's identify because you now have their blood type, their religion, you have their Social, and you have their name," he said.

The Army has been working on making this change for years; it was first outlined in the DoD Social Security Number Reduction Plan and the President's Task Force on Identity Theft Strategic Plan in 2007, according to the Army.

It took time to figure out how to implement the change because several Army systems used a soldier's Social Security number, and all for different purposes, Klemowski said. Each system had to be reworked so they worked with one another and the DoD ID number, he said.

"More and more systems are going to go to the DoD ID number as technology catches up with us and we are able to phase out the Social Security number," he said.
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